Barack Obama

after all this is not about Vidal refusing to be vaccinated ... but it is a cool story none the less. A story about a school in a bad neighborhood & progressive people around the world chipping in to help these at-risk students visit Harvard, have a educational summer program, and start a scholarship program (there are 5 more days of fund-raising I believe - but the total has surpassed 1.2 million at this point).

This week I have been reading stories about republican governors not only discouraging science with rhetoric, but actually proposing budgets with large slashing in many areas of education. While folks reminisce about their bouts with measles we are having the rugs pulled out from under us in this country: the race to the bottom is accelerating. But at least in this one corner of NYC I see some hope for the future.