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The voodoo queen has spoken

4.1.2011

This post was a part of our April Fool's Day edition of The Gladfly! Please don't think we're serious about this.

Ricky Ricardo Hess, on his "Spiraling Down" blog reports:

Soothsayers, sociologists, warlocks, and the Dalai Lama all agree?Arne Duncan is surely cursed. Voodoo experts tie Duncan's damnation back to a New Orleans mother of five, angry over Louisiana's loss in Race to the Top. Since the RTTT announcements, things have gotten progressively worse for the Secretary. In recent weeks, his labor-management collaboration summit in Denver led to an eruption of labor-management battles in the Midwest. And his ?vacation? at the pyramids and the famed Roman ruins of Leptis Magna clearly left a trail of unrest. Secretary Clinton has now banned her colleague from further travel to, and contact with, citizens of a host of touchy places, including Israel, Pakistan, China, and Zimbabwe. Three dozen other countries have petitioned to have him quarantined on Maryland Avenue SW. Attorney General Holder is investigating his authority to invoke and enforce such a confinement. There are rumors of Guantanamo. Sorry pal.

?The Education Gladfly

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