Grading On A Curve

September, 2015

America is more progressive than ever. Will ageism be the next prejudice to fall? "Ageism is the last acceptable prejudice in America—that and Asian drivers." That's not my line, though I wish it were. It's Bill Maher's, in a rant about how Jerry Brown is the best governor in the U.S. but isn't considered a viable presidential candidate. Why? Because he's 77. "Only in America is age more important than the fact that Jerry Brown took a broken state and fixed it. And he did it in hi...