None of the Above

Did you know that in Nevada, you can vote for "None of the Above?" Republicans in Nevada are worried that Romney would lose votes to the ever popular Mr. Above and are trying to get that taken off the ballot. Personally, I think they should be careful. They could wind up getting it changed to All of the Above which would be just as bad. And besides, there just isn't enough room in the White House for everybody to be the winner.

Stephen is a big fan of the Youth. He pointed out that Obama is winning the Youth vote, 43% over Romney's 26%. We learned in The Word that Texas has a way to fix that. Luckily the Texas Board of Education has helped by re-writing textbooks. Now the 2012 Republican Party Platform in Texas has many ideas for fixing education. They oppose the teaching of Critical Thinking Skills. I guess it is just to confusing to have all those children learn how to look at facts, look at opinions, and think. Much better and way easier to just be told what to think. If you want to read the whole Report of Platform Committee, go to this article in Talking Points Memo and click on the link at the end of the article.

Stephen blames all this support for critical thinking skills on Galileo. Everything was going fine, everybody was feeling happy until Galileo got a telescope for Christmas and wrecked it for everyone. It used to be good enough to believe that the Earth went around the Sun. Now, thanks to Galileo, we have had to change our thinking in order to believe that the Earth goes around the Sun!

If you did indeed watch The Colbert Report, you were in for a nice surprise about Stephen and his many awards. If you did not watch it, I won't spoil the surprise. But you can read about it here.

Stephen's guest was Nas. It was about five years ago that Nas was on the show and received the famous Colbert Bump. His album went to number one. Stephen hopes that this time, his album will go to number zero. Stephen is trying to be sincerely kind, but I don't think he understands the concept of Number One.