Saturday, October 03, 2009

Virginia Shag: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Flying Nun

Student in class discussion about the teaching of history:

"The only thing most people know about Thomas Jefferson nowadays is that he wrote the Declaration of Independence and had an affair with Sally Fields [sic]."

This is evidently how we are punished: it will now be difficult to get this rather disturbing image out of my head.


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