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As a teacher, I have valued them for their educational aspects and, as a student I learned quite a bit from them.

I’m Just a Bill remains a favorite and (like many other people) I memorized the Preamble to the Constution by having that song in my head. It got me through an 8th grade U.S. history quiz!

That these cartoons are still available for the kids of today thrills me to no end.

When I was in 5th grade, everyone had to stand in front of the class are recite the Preamble to the Constitution. All the kids did the same thing. They would say a few words, look up at the ceiling, start tapping their foot, and bobbing their head before saying the next phrase. After the third student did this, the teacher asked, “What are you all doing?” In unison the class responded, “Singing the song.” “What song?” “Schoolhouse Rock.” He exasperatedly replied, “Whatever, just be quicker about it.” Good times, good times.

My favorite of the new cartoons is Three-Ring Government which works well as education and satire at the same time.

Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock, when I was but a lad in the late 1970′s, I aced an essay question on a 9th grade Economics class test.

We had to write the Preamble to the Constitution and I had that song in my head!

I suspect that Republicans grabbed onto the color notion after 2000 because it was a way to deflect attention from the fact that Bush had lost the popular vote; the reason we kept seeing the election map with all that red was an attempt to make it look like Republican support was much greater than the Democrats’. That only works, though, if you ignore the fact that many of those red states have very few people living in them relative to many of the blue states, as a visit to this site makes clear.

Well, practically everywhere in the world except the US uses red to represent vaguely left-wing parties.