It’s Funny Because It’s Not Funny

I recently saw a particularly poignant piece of graffito etched on a friend’s Facebook wall:

A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, “Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.”

And while this might easily refer to any number of anti-labor sentiments, it seems most appropriate as a reaction to the current – inexplicable – War on Teachers that has been raging in the media lately.

If you haven’t seen last Thursday’s Daily Show, you really need to go watch it. In a brilliant piece at the top of the show, Jon Stewart demonstrates the hypocrisy of the right-wing talking heads when talking about teachers. Later, he interviews education truth-teller Diane Ravitch, who lays out the rest of the argument.

If you want to understand the conversations surrounding education reform, then – as Tom Tomorrow says in this week’s strip – that’s all you need to know.

5 Responses to “It’s Funny Because It’s Not Funny”

  1. Brian Says:

    I love that story about the cookies.

  2. Asher Says:

    Well spoken

  3. Asher Says:

    Well stated is what I meant to say.

  4. DeLisa Says:

    These are the kinds of blog posts I come to ST.com for – nicely done, sir!!!

  5. Bill Says:

    Thanks, DeLisa!

    I’d like to write more about the crisis in education, but I often find myself too busy addressing it!

    More to come…

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