Rivaling Thomas Friedman for "Mustache of Understanding" status

Paul Burka pauses from delivering mustache rides to nowhere (like this real boner: “[Bell] lost any chance of getting my vote when he decried high-stakes testing”), to wax rhapsodic on last night’s D wins as only he could.

This article appears in November 3 • 2006.

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