[BillCompton]

He also made us memorize the entire cabinet and all the leading members of the house and senate. He was super liberal (it was the 70's) but it was my first foray into understanding politics.

There is nothing wrong with being a "super liberal" as a teacher as long as you teach. Sounds like this guy passed the test. It's the same reason I read the NYT and Washington Post, to learn. The NYT is definately biased, but their news stories are full of facts, which is why, despite Howell Raines, it is a great newspaper.

[wny]

The NYT may have some facts and thereby may be a usefull and/or informative paper. But by constantly, and shamelessly shilling for the DNC, it's certainly not a great paper. It's little more than a DNC newsletter.