Was I Ranting About History or Geography?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Well there you go … any time I go out on a limb with one of my wild thoughts the news comes along and makes a monkey out of me.

The lady in the picture, Erica Chevillar, is not a failed basketball coach.  She’s a graduate teacher, got hired to teach history and then found out that posing for bikini shots paid a lot more money, so she quit school teaching (provably just before the Harper Valley PTA rode her out of town on a rail).  It’s been whispered about that some of her former students found pictures of her in a bikini on the Internet.  How shocking!  Imagine a high school student seeing an attractive woman in a bikini!  The total shame of it all!

So now Erica is in the news again because she got a photo spread in Playboy Magazine.  She’s said to be wearing a bit less than a bikini for Playboy … and making substantially more money according to the rumor mill.

Says a bit as to why Americans can’t read maps or understand history.

Says a bit as to why the US has to send teams here to the Philippines and other Asian countries to find teachers

Says a bit about why most of the names receiving research grants for interesting medical and physics research seem to be of Asian origin.

Says a bit about why there’s really no equivalent to Playboy and its ilk in China.

Or so Mr. GPS opines, anyway