Defensively, we are maybe one of the top three teams in all of [Class AA].

He's definitely been our offense this year, without a doubt.

He has ignored the public school system, which serves 40,000 students, while concentrating on the reasonable success of a small number of charter schools, which haven't done much in the way of academic achievement.

Americans, whether armed or not, were still looking everywhere but at social class when parsing the texture of their lives. It wasn’t so much that stressed-out blue-collar folks were clinging bitterly to their guns and religion, as Barack Obama had posited while running for president. It was more that guns and religion were keeping them from feeling bitter about the indignities inflicted on the middle class.

Our best hope for political change in China is a growing middle class that is tuned in and economically independent.

A lot of people have underestimated the class of 2004. I think they've all put on solid shows, and they're going to be just fine.