Spelling aside, there is a general dumbing-down in the United States that is appalling. I am off to hear Ungar and Mason with Nanci Griffith tonight and I don't even want to start on this issue. I loved teaching but the "system" drove me nuts. Let me just say for now that that American education is the inculcation of the incomprenensible to the indifferent by the incompetent.

Spaw