Abbott and Costello, zany comic geniuses, are enjoying a big second act 75 years after their original success.  That's because people need easy ways to describe the pretentious but ultimately silly Common Core.  Abbott and Costello cooked up some mad math that sounds strangely like C.C. homework, such as "Loan Me Fifty Cents" (2 minutes): Common Core is a challenge for the normal mind because it is unnecessarily complicated, pompous, and dishonest, all at the same instant. There are many scores of videos trying to illuminate the tangled web known as Common Core.  This one has the virtue of being only 96 seconds. Here's how a C.C. shill defends the indefensible: "[E]ven if they said 3 times 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in words and oral explanations and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong, we're really...(Read Full Article)