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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.
Rebecca Traister

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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 04:03 PM

    @ healthyskeptic

    We can't teach more geography in school because geography is more than just maps, and to truly teach geography one has to delve into history, and we can't delve into history without touching upon the politcal and the constitutional, and we can't do that because people the likes of Lynne Cheney get their undies in a twist if history is actually taught as more than a smiley-faced bunch of patriotic lies.

    Also, to the person who said this young woman probably has a nice high school transcript: That is a measure of absolutely nothing.

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