As I spent some time today wandering the blogscape in territory never or seldom or not recently explored, I found myself following a thread of thought. The greatest failing of this grand experiment, the United States of America, is that we have ceased to learn, we have been voluntarily sliding, like the kids who don't want to be called on, to the back of the class. Or like the kids who think they know enough, and don't need to pay attention to where the rest of the class is going. Or like the... Sign in to see full entry.