1. On Tuesday, France's National Assembly passed a bill in favor of same sex marriage by a vote of 329-229. The Marriage for All bill now goes to their Senate.
First Great Britain and now France. I love this!
2. France, having recently completed an in depth study of their standard public school curriculum and finding it lacking, is writing a whole new curriculum to be used beginning next school year. Apparently they found that the current curriculum focused too much on rote learning that "discourages creativity and critical thinking". Next year, French students will be memorizing less while thinking and analyzing more.
Maybe they could save money by just exchanging curricula with Texas where the GOP recently passed a platform condemning the teaching of critical thinking skills. (See my post from yesterday, "No Thinking Allowed Department".)
3. On Monday, former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer entered a plea of guilty on five counts of grand theft and money laundering. No plea bargain was in place. Mr. Greer's lawyer, Damon Chase, explained it this way: "Sometimes clearing your name is not as important as taking care of your family. The facts were on our side, and the truth would have come out in the trial. Greer's name would have been cleared."
Uh huh.
"Sometimes clearing your name is not as important as taking care of your family. The facts were on our side, and the truth would have come out in the trial. Greer's name would have been cleared."
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