This in from Michele Moen, over at Soil and Water – some good reasons to discontinue the use of styrofoam. She’s asking the County Council to ban use of styrofoam cups at county meetings and workshops, and ” perhaps one day follow the 28 counties and 90 cities who have already banned this harmful product.”
Here’s the text of President Barack Obama’s address to schoolchildren today, for anyone who missed it. It’s online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
As for all the controversy, what a tempest in a teapot, whipped up by fearful political opponents.
It’s more like shades of Horatio Alger. Yes, and there’s acknowledgment that a lot of people struggle with life’s circumstances. I don’t think telling kids they can overcome the obstacles life throws at them is too subversive.