Has George Bush Committed Big Bird to a Slow Death?

Apparently the American government has made another bonehead play with their money: they've cut their funding of PBS stations by 25%.

As the linked article rightly points out, this comes at a time when said government is committing much of their resources to the war in Iraq (And, yes, it IS still a war. It may "officially" be over for two years now according to George, but given how much fighting is still going on over there, saying that it's over seems... optimistic at best). I guess when Mr. Bush took the job, someone forgot to mention to him that he's supposed to be running the United States, not any other countries. But I'm getting off topic...

This doesn't definitely mean an ending to any of the PBS produced programming, but it certainly can't help things. It's ironic, though, that this is the same government that instituted the "No Child Left Behind" plan for their schools, which was intended to help get their overall standard of education up (Though anyone who actually knows what "No one left behind" involves, though, will tell you that it's not as good as it at first seems).

Garg.