It also isn't nearly as good as a real teacher at inspiring students, and when a student doesn't get it, a video can't think of an alternate way to explain the same issue, or find an analogy the student understands.

This hatred of teachers becomes a downward spiral. We hate them, so we won't raise their pay, so fewer good people are inclined to take up the job -- who needs the hatred and the low pay? -- and so the quality gets worse, and down it goes.

Khan Academy is great, but it's only assistive technology, not a substitute for the real thing.

We didn't have an ass until we lost our tails, so we had to squat on our haunches the way monkeys still do. But now that we have an ass to sit on, that's what I prefer.

It's depressing because it's so idiotic and yet so many people are taken in by it.

The authors of the Federalist papers were dissidents.

If they contain a ringing endorsement of anonymous hate speech, I missed it.

I'm my own employer, and I am and always have been careful about what I say, because I was raised to be civil. I also have the backbone to stand behind my words like a man, not hide behind a bedsheet and lob insults like a Klansman.

Remind me again where the Constitution guarantees a right to privacy. :-)

When you speak in public, your name IS our business. You can stand behind your words or you can keep quiet. Choose.

Persons at risk are excepted: children, whistleblowers, dissidents, people discussing medical conditions. If you're not one of them, you have no legitimate reason to hide under your Klan bedsheet.