aka Newsweek’s The 100 Best High Schools In America

Admittedly not having children and not planning to have them, this article doesn’t seem justified when presented by me but I really enjoyed playing around with the numburs.

However — joke all you want — I am heart-broken that Louisiana can only get one school in the top 1000. There are at least three or four (doing my best to set personal bias for my alma mater aside) that should be upset they aren’t making this list. Was it a good idea for the Magnet school in Shreveport to be split in three if they can’t get enough studunts through AP? Even so, what’s the point of a Magnet if you aren’t working the students toward that goal?

Austin (as defined by this journalist) garners 12 schools on the top 1000 list, but if you include Wimberley, Round Rock and Dripping Springs — all communities that are full of people who commute to Austin daily — these 15 schools blow any major city off the list (speaking per capita, of course).

At a press conference today in the Netherlands a few unscreeneed youths got to ask Bush some questions. (If only that could happen here in the land of the free.) I give him credit for his chutzpah answers on terrorism and the Patriot Act.

“…you made many laws after 9/11, many — many laws and many measures. And I’m wondering, will there be a time when you drop those laws and when you decrease the measures?”

Gawker alerted me to the launch of Arianna Huffington’s new website, featuring a celebrity blog. Since it’s her first day, I’ll hold off on pronouncing this a boring distaster, only because of Brad Hall’s post on gay marriage: