Life, Feb. 23, 2006:

Deciding that money outweighed health concerns, the Wake County school board agreed Tuesday to continue offering soft-drink vending machines in schools.

“Kids are buying it anyway,” said board member Rosa Gill. “I’d rather see the profits going to schools than the corner store.”

Sanders spoof, May 1, 2002:

“Kids are going to do it anyway” pedagogy is now making further inroads in Wake County.

Given this and another recent revelation, I think LR readers should pay more attention to my jokes; they could portend the future four years hence. Sure, and NC State will win a national champship in basketball.