The Book of the Shadows

Baseball may be going through an epidemic right now. Does the trouble in America's pastime tell us anything about our nation as a whole?

The test scores are out and guess what... the U.S isn't doing all that hot. The question is, should we start to panic, or is it time to take a step back and look again at what's going on.

It's about that time of year here int eh states, when K-12 students start heading back to school. I personally have long thought that the variance in the exact time of year was always quite odd. Primarily in the south is where schools start in early - mid August. The northeast waits until after Labor Day in September. At any rate, I think this is an appropriate time to share some thoughts on the state of the education system here in the U.S.