Why I Want To Live in NY (Bklyn) Again -- yet another in the series

People read on the train.

Turn it Off

This ad is wonderful, more about parenting and literacy than getting him elected.  

I can even use it in the Every Child Ready to Read workshops when Obama is president!

(The version I saw on TV here is for FL, not NC.  And I don't know why the quality of the video is so bad, looks just fine on YouTube and on Obama's site....)

Politics and Privacy/Summer Reading

There were a couple of pieces worth sharing on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday this morning. Host Scott Simon makes some excellent points about the private lives of politicians, like Larry Craig, or anyone else, in his commentary, Simon Says.
And I loved this story about a high school principal in New Jersey who made his way through the summer reading list so he could discuss the books with his students.