[lbo-talk] U.S. working class: buncha morons

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
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>... And looking at some of the samples isn't very comforting either; "level 
>2" prose literacy requires a reader to locate a basic fact in a simple 
>newspaper article, a skill that was beyond 21% of the population. "Level 4" 
>requires people to paraphrase a simple op-ed article - only 20% of the pop 
>could do that.

But oddly enough, it would seem that any idiot able to operate a keyboard 
can write an op-ed.  Consider T. L. Friedman, thrice Pulitzer Prize winner.

Carl