Dashing Good News

I say, it’s high time those liberal snobs in the New York Times got off their high horse and gave us some credit for all the good we do.   Finally there’s a column that acknowledges our role in starting charter schools.  And it’s not like the rest of the country, where they actually create or [...]

Things Are Coming Along Swimmingly

I say, it appears Mikey and Joel have employed a Goldman Sachs hypnotherapist for a piddling 374K per annum, and the rabble is already hooting about it.  There’s some uncouth individual by the name of “Reality Based Educator” whining simply because he was hired by another Goldman Sachs alum.
That’s the way the world works, old [...]

What Rot

I say, when I read things like this on the internets, they go right up my nose.  What sort of bounder publishes embarrassing photos of Mikey like that one?  Not only that, but this chap is outright disrespectful not only to Mikey, but to the entire concept of mayoral control.
I say, hear hear to Mikey [...]

Laws Are for the Little People

The execrable NY Senate has failed to renew mayoral control.  However, those of us in position to do something about it firmly support Mikey in his efforts to spearhead reform.  It’s well known that important initiatives like the Smellington Academy simply could not move forward without the leadership of people like Mikey and Joel.
That’s why [...]

Pocket Change

I say, what’s all the who-ha about the 18 million Michael Bloomberg has spent on buying his third term as mayor? I say, if he wants to rummage through his Queen Anne sofa for enough pocket change to run for mayor, who are we to complain?
Frankly, I think the great unwashed should be bursting with [...]

Deep Disappointment

That’s what I feel as I stroll the streets today and see all the urchins lollygagging about.  There’s simply no reason for that, and once we open the Smellington Academy they’ll know what it means to get a job done.  And the riffraff on the street!  Why aren’t these people working, for the love of [...]

An Unmitigated Outrage!

Hi, ho lovies! (Kiss, kiss). Just got back from a little nip-tuck vacation and I’ve heard the most shocking news! It seems that some of the teachers at my favorite, reform, I mean “charter” school have been attempting to – I can barely say the word – unionize!
What on earth can they be [...]

The Billionaire’s Party!

I say! The most frightful thing has happened. It’s discrimination, I tell you. Old Bloomy (Mayor Bloomberg to those of you who pay taxes) is being discriminated against because he’s rich! Absolutely! You see, first, the Republicans of all people refused to allow Bloomy to run on their beastly ticket. And then the [...]

A Smashing Invite!

What ho! What ho! What ho! Augustus “Gussie” Smith-Smythe here. A rousing three cheers to my ancient chum Smellington for his smashing welcome. Old Smelly has been telling me that there are some members of the working class who frequent this site, and what’s worse, they seem to think they actually have a say in [...]

Exciting News

Have invited a tennis buddy of ours, Augustus Smith-Smythe, to lend a voice to the burgeoning billionaire lobby here at BER. As you all know, the mainstream media is replete with ne’er do wells and reprobates who care nothing for pressing issues like tax cuts for PLUs.
Personally, I’m sick to death of seeing the [...]

A Simple Question

I was out walking today, and all around me were the bootless and unhorsed, and I had to ask Muffy, “Gad, why aren’t these people working?”
This country has lost its moral compass. We need to get these people scrubbing the floors immediately. If we allow this sort of nonsense year after year, mark [...]

Hire That Man

Well, Smelly, that GBN News chap is at it again, savaging our boy Mikey and his lawyer friend Klein. One can well imagine I was in a bit of a snit over that one, all right. But then I got to thinking. Chatty, old boy, I said to myself, we need that fellow to serve [...]

Mikey For President, Chatty For Mayor

Smelly, old bean,
I just read in that infernal NYC Parent Blog that if term limits are ended, Mikey could go for a third term. Now, the man’s done a bang-up job, no question, and only a billionaire can truly reform our schools to meet the needs and desires of the truly wealthy. But he’s not [...]

A Few Brilliant Thoughts

Tally-Ho, Smelly old chap -
Your “Modest Proposal”, while lacking the dramatic quality of the Jonathan Swift original, is one which I should be sure to adopt immediately upon being crowned – I mean, being elected Mayor. By the way, I’ve already had one applicant to be my schools Chancellor. I told him I’d try him [...]

Greetings from Chatsworth Runforth III

Well done, Smelly, fine blog! “Billionaires For Educational Reform”, that’s us in a nutshell. Of course, there’s also that upstart Bloomberg, him with his “new money”. But I daresay we have to keep up appearances with him, he has done a fine job, whatever the hell he’s been doing with that lawyer friend of his, [...]