"Weapons of Math Instruction"
At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a
public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession
of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a
morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft said he believes the
man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He is being charged by the
FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-Gebra is a fearsome cult,", Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by
means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute
value. They use secret code names like "x" and "y" and refer to themselves as
"unknowns", but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the
axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. "As the Greek philanderer
Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle," Ashcroft declared.


When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us
to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers
and toes. I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is
intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us
with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every
sphere of influence." The President continued, saying, "Under the
circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the
line." Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to
decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become
exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor in random facts of vertex."

Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse.
Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though the Al-Gebrists continue to
multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their
necks."