http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/10/pop-culture-inversions/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/10/pop-culture-inversions/comment-page-1/#comment-84056 Mike Devx Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:23:56 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9989#comment-84056 The teacher paused at the blackboard, stopped speaking, set her eraser down quietly on the corner of her desk, and walked down the middle aisle to stand where Billy sat at his desk, engrossed in what he was reading.  The class murmured as one. She'd noticed he was paying her no attention!   "Conserving Nature", the teacher said suddenly and loudly.  Billy almost jumped in his seat, looking up.  The teacher reached down and pulled the prior month's magazine from his hands.  "Excellent reading material for our threatened world," she said, "But what have we here?"  For behind the pages of the magazine, now exposed was a greyed book.  The teacher picked it up from Billy's hands.   "The Modern Young Scientist", she read the title and then the subtitle: "Progress And The Young Entrepreneur".  She smiled and laughed lightly.  The class, taking its cue, laughed loudly.  "Billy, Billy, Billy," she said, walking to the front of the room to the table beneath the sign "Reading Rewards!"   "What's wrong with THESE?" she asked, "The classroom rewards for the END of the day, once all work is done?"  She began picking up these magazines one by one.  "Teen Beat!"  "Rock Star".  "Growing Up Green".  "US Pop" - with Tiger Woods declaring, "I Am A Sex Addict" on the cover.  "People" and "Us".   Billy, you are to stick to my recommended Rewards Material, or we'll have no more reading at the end of the day.  Is that clear to you... and to ALL of you, class?"  she said, and, tossing the grey book into the wastebasket, she picked up her eraser again, strode to the blackboard.  She turned, smiling, and said, "Now.  Where were we?"   The teacher paused at the blackboard, stopped speaking, set her eraser down quietly on the corner of her desk, and walked down the middle aisle to stand where Billy sat at his desk, engrossed in what he was reading.  The class murmured as one. She’d noticed he was paying her no attention!
 
“Conserving Nature”, the teacher said suddenly and loudly.  Billy almost jumped in his seat, looking up.  The teacher reached down and pulled the prior month’s magazine from his hands.  ”Excellent reading material for our threatened world,” she said, “But what have we here?”  For behind the pages of the magazine, now exposed was a greyed book.  The teacher picked it up from Billy’s hands.
 
“The Modern Young Scientist”, she read the title and then the subtitle: “Progress And The Young Entrepreneur”.  She smiled and laughed lightly.  The class, taking its cue, laughed loudly.  ”Billy, Billy, Billy,” she said, walking to the front of the room to the table beneath the sign “Reading Rewards!”
 
“What’s wrong with THESE?” she asked, “The classroom rewards for the END of the day, once all work is done?”  She began picking up these magazines one by one.  ”Teen Beat!”  ”Rock Star”.  ”Growing Up Green”.  ”US Pop” – with Tiger Woods declaring, “I Am A Sex Addict” on the cover.  ”People” and “Us”.
 
Billy, you are to stick to my recommended Rewards Material, or we’ll have no more reading at the end of the day.  Is that clear to you… and to ALL of you, class?”  she said, and, tossing the grey book into the wastebasket, she picked up her eraser again, strode to the blackboard.  She turned, smiling, and said, “Now.  Where were we?”
 

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