All that Sputnik-inspired money poured into American education, all that pride in American literacy, all those American cable and satellite connections to the Information Superhighway -- and yet at least half the country still stumbles through its medieval day believing that the cock's crowing caused the sun to rise.
From the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll:
Fifty percent of Americans see the Obama administration as having the power to do something about the cost of a gallon of gasoline ... [and] Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the situation.
I, for one, would prefer that Obama do something ameliorative about this windy weather in March before he pauses from his despotic meddling in our already perfect healthcare system to order home deliveries of $2.50-a-gallon gasoline, as well as free eggs, nickel beer, and ponies for everybody. Yet my seething, not-really-threatening, thrice-daily letters to the White House about our neglected meteorological needs have yielded nothing but presidential indifference (and, possibly, 24/7 FBI surveillance).
Tin-foilers of the world, unite!