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New Rule: Let’s not fire the teachers when students don’t learn - let’s fire the parents. Last week President Obama defended the firing of every single teacher in a struggling high school in a poor Rhode Island neighborhood. And the kids were outraged.

“I wanted to create a video that actually represented Third Eye Blind,” says Stephan Jenkins, lead singer and songwriter for the group (and famous Punk’d guest). “The song is full angry, bold and dirty and so are we!” Yup, the guy who fronted the band that gave us huge hits like “Semi-Charmed Life,” “How’s It Going To Be,” “Jumper” and “Never Let You Go” has just directed/pieced together a new, innovative video for the group that utilizes hundreds of photos to mimic stop-motion production.

It’s hard to see Food, Inc. and not be inspired. Okay, so most people might not be selling their house and quitting their office job to become full time farmers, but the movie certainly inspires people to change something in their lives. There’s a lot of super simple but highly effective things you can do to transition off of a corn-based diet, lessen your carb(on) food/footprint, support local farmers and choose humanely raised meats.