Demagogue

These days, a responsible school board of any major school district in America would be directing every penny it could find to pay the integral costs of education -- particularly at a time when the so-called No Child Left Behind Act has imposed several new mandates on local districts.

But when you're the Cobb County (Ga.) School Board, you'd rather throw money into a ridiculous legal appeal in the hope of overturning a federal judge's ruling.

After all, plastering those anti-evolution stickers on the district's science textbooks did so much to improve learning and test scores in the county's public schools.