The Czar took a lead from ‘Puter (who is drop-dead gorgeous, if you (a) like open head wounds and (b) are willing to drop dead), and flipped through his wife’s quarterly teacher’s union magazine.

The theme of the entire issue was the inequities exist in education among largely economic lines. Not surprisingly, one article found that lower class black children have worse test scores than middle class white children. The facts were fairly presented, although the Czar found this quote:

In addition, beginning in 1980, when Ronald Reagan became president, sharp spending cuts in direct aid to cities dramatically reduced budgets for general revenue sharing (unrestricted funds that can be used for any purpose), urban mass transit, economic development assistance, social service block grants, local public works, compensatory education, public service jobs, and job training. Many of these program were designed to help disadvantaged individuals gain some traction in attaining financial security.

Those dastardly Republicans!

Except of course, these cuts were done in 1980—but Ronald Reagan did not become president until January, 1981. Cute, to trick the reader into assuming that Reagan was behind these cuts, but Reagan, uh, wasn’t president. It was Carter’s budget.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.