canada #4 in education, beating out them drunken aussies but just getting edged out by the finns. america is a distant 18th.

the nytimes takes notice of the apple switchy thing. once the ny times covers a story, i’m pretty sure it loses its “meme” status. best switch ad yet: a man switches from america to canada. second best: apple’s will ferrell ads.

also on the ny times front page: is bush pardoning the turkey, or is the turkey pardoning bush? hmm.

ban comic sans. amen.

in the us, health care bites even for the middle class. non-revelatory news flash: the free market sucks at delivering social services or public goods. not only do corporations have a mandate to make massive profits, but these days they have to make ever increasing amounts of profit or else their share prices go down. to me, this formula seems to be intrinsically at odds with the public good. boy, those fuckers better not privatize bc hydro.