Sorry and thanks for the heads up, Shannon! I've replaced the link with your website.

As someone who gets his posts linkjacked regularly, I can understand how annoying this gets.

Gomez' trolling comment deleted.

Also the subject of Dan Brown's latest novel, right? I've read somewhere that there were mistakes in the codes (when the sculpture was cast) that threw a lot of cryptoanalysts.

The senoritas these two will have a date with after all that Taco Bell are named Dia and Rhea.

@alexx - job protection is the direct result of union battles in the early 20th century. Before then, teachers could easily be fired for both valid and frivolous reasons. So, union protection was a reasonable reaction to the then egregious employment conditions (not just for teachers, but for factory workers and the like).

But now, the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme. Surely unions realize that it's in their best interest to get rid of bad apples , but if you read the article, protecting its members against dismissals - regardless of the severity of the infractions - is the way of many modern teacher unions.

Sure school administration deserves some of the blame, but the process of firing a bad teacher (which surely exists as anyone who has ever gone to school can attest) is so stacked against them that it's bordering on being ridiculous.

From the article:

The district wanted to fire a high school teacher who kept a stash of pornography, marijuana and vials with cocaine residue at school, but a commission balked, suggesting that firing was too harsh. L.A. Unified officials were also unsuccessful in firing a male middle school teacher spotted lying on top of a female colleague in the metal shop, saying the district did not prove that the two were having sex.

The district fared no better in its case against elementary school special education teacher Gloria Hsi, despite allegations that included poor judgment, failing to report child abuse, yelling at and insulting children, planning lessons inadequately and failing to supervise her class.

Not a single charge was upheld. The commission found the school's evaluators were unqualified because they did not have special education training. Moreover, it said they went to the class at especially difficult periods and didn't stay long enough.

Oh, and by the way, the "many years" you spoke of before a teacher gets tenure is 2 years in California, 3 years in other states. That's hardly "many years" on the job.

FTFY - good find, taliesyn30!

@Kathy - they were told that one of the food was dog food

Edited for you Len.

Art that doesn't ruffle anyone's feathers isn't worth clucking about.

I think Travis just inadvertently described Neatorama ;)

Soon-yi Previn must be healthy as a horse!

Ahahahaha BartC3!

There's a reason why hospital food are so bad: it's yet another incentive for you to get well and get the hell out of there!

What? Where? On Neatorama or on Jeffrey's website? If it's on Neatorama, I'd like to know about it because self-starting video with audio is not cool.