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You'd think so, and yet...If you haven't yet, track down Slacktivist's deconstructions of the series. Comedy GOLD.

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And the Founding Father that started the Public Library system in the US!

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But, if they learn to read good, won't they eventually learn that the Earth is not flat and 6,000 years old? Obama just wants to destroy our Traditional American Values.

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When I was in school, I struggled with Al Gebra because of my sincerely held religious beliefs.

And also sucking at math.

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I wonder if O would try it for us right before handing the keys to Hillary. We can start a petition, call it a scientific experiment to make it sound all legit?

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I didn't know about it when he began. I think I picked it up in 2008 or so and read everything up to the point from the start. I also reread it all a year or two ago. Fred Clark is indeed brilliant.

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But if they can read they might be able to pass the voting test I want to enact!

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There is a legitimate worry by those of us in the "independent" and small press publication field that we'll be "left behind" by the corporate giants. C'mon, when have the Ds or Rs ever done anything NOT for corporate benefit?

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Play-what now?

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Like we need more crap in the atmosphere.

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If Rainbow Dash reads, anyone can read, except maybe Republicans...

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The only good Republican Voter is an illiterate Republican Voter.

http://media2.giphy.com/med...

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Christ, you act as if any self respecting parent would let their kids read Wonkette.

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That was the first damn word the angel spake unto Mohammed, after all. Or iqra in the original Mooslin.

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Obama expects all school districts to have certain books available to all students: a common core of reading material, as it were.

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