[Nasty McPhilthy]

Yeah, what he said.

[2banana]

Everything I know about history I learned on MTV...

[rellimpank]

---he would be able to “order” states to adopt “Right to Work” laws--

In what context was this?

[Graymatter]

I have a History Channel videotape that claims seafaring began over 800,000 years ago.
Just another reason to homeschool. :)

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Actually the problem runs much deeper than just history, which is bad enough. On the technical side, very few people now know the operating principles behind a lot of the items that they use, and consequently they lack the practical skills to put the back in operation when they fail.

We are raising an nation of ignoramuses (most of the present company excepted) and we surely will pay the price as a nation.

Ignorance is the enemy of mankind. Or if you think the cost of education is high, you should see the cost of ignorance.

[agere_contra]

Programs dealing with Germany in one world war will have a map of Germany in the other world war.

There were two world wars? Yeah right...

[Mr. Blonde]

I was always kind of disappointed that everything I have ever seen said the death of Nancy Spungen remains officially unsolved. Only to find the answer on a trivial pursuit card. Apparently Sid did, in fact, kill her and then committed suicide. It was not the accidental overdose that I had heard.

[Graybeard58]

How can you have an article about democrat ignorance without a single mention of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee?

[Ace of Spades]

Dean referred repeatedly, in a question about the problem of a nuclear Iran to our need to include “the Soviet Union” in the process, oblivious to the fact that the salient geopolitical fact of the last fifty years has been the collapse of the Soviet Union.

For God's sake... In 1996 Bob Dole made a reference to the Brooklyn Dodgers. It can happen to anyone.