"...the next time you turn on the TV and see yourself called 'overpaid'..."

If you haven't seen it already, please check out Matt Damon's impassioned defense of teachers at a Save Our Schools (SOS) rally.



To loud cheers, he says, "I don’t know where I would be today if my teachers’ job security was based on how I performed on some standardized test. If their very survival as teachers was based on whether I actually fell in love with the process of learning but rather if I could fill in the right bubble on a test."

And I am a Snake Head

Many of us would-be hipsters go through a They Might Be Giants stage: late teens, early twenties, we go to their concerts, we buy their tee-shirts, we phone up "Dial-a-Song." Their nonsensical lyrics speak to us.

When I found out that yesterday's date, 01-02-2010, was a palindrome, the band's lyrics came rushing back: I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side... (Snake head)...

I'm reminded that not everything has to have a deeper meaning. Maybe part of what makes TMBG so enjoyable, especially for people of a certain age, starting college, determining what they want to do with their lives, is that it doesn't have a greater significance; it is what it is - fun and entertaining.