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She compares a state funeral to Leno's monologue and decides we come up short in the gravitas department? Uh-huh.

>She compares a state funeral to Leno's monologue and decides we come up short in the gravitas department?

Now that the Queen Mum is dead, does that mean Michael can finally kill Fredo?

Mark W.

Let's face it: American's aren't well educated. At a young age, my family migrated to Australia. The state education I got there was specutacular - every day I thank my lucky stars for it. I was doing calculus at 14 (as were all my other class mates)-- no special school - just the expected level for a 14 year old. American kids today can barely do fractions at 14.

There were 2 major exams throughout a kid's school life: in both you were judged on how well you performed in the entire state. A typical question from the English paper (6 hours closed book): "Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona is nothing more than a rehash of Plautus' Manachme Twins - Discuss." Those doing WWII history, had to know German in order to read Mein Kampf in the original ... etc, etc ...

When I wen to university (classics) the prerequiste BEFORE the first class started was to have translated all of Virgil's Aeneid ...

And to this day, I still know how to derive the sin-cosine of 30 degrees, 60 degree angles from first principles...

What's the difference? American kids are just as smart as Australian just not as well educated and the reason is the PC crap in American schools and lack of discipline trains the kids not to achieve, since "we are all winners". Also, there is no shame attached to ignorance. In Australia, there is.