A number of bloggers are linking to this NY Times article about the GAO’s investegation into the Bush Administration’s illegal use of propaganda, but I haven’t seen anyone point out this delicious bit of irony :

In the course of its work, the accountability office discovered a previously undisclosed instance in which the Education Department had commissioned a newspaper article. The article, on the “declining science literacy of students,” was distributed by the North American Precis Syndicate and appeared in numerous small newspapers around the country. Readers were not informed of the government’s role in writing of the article.

Yes, the same administraion whose intellectual bankruptcy has led to an unofficial Congressional investigation and a bestselling book has the balls to lecture people on “declining science literacy”?! Here’s a preview of how the Bushies want to “improve” science classes courtesy of the criminally underrated Ruben Bolling :

By the way, I’d like to nominate “Inherit this wind, fiend!” as the greatest action one-liner of all time. If the actor who plays God-Man ever runs for Governor of California, he’s got my vote.