you know that nonsense about how the federal government's heavy hand is deciding everything taught in local schools, not in williamsburg, virginia. where a fourth grade class is being taught that thousands of black troops fought for the south in the civil war. the historian and mother of a student who discovered this joins us next. first, the sanity break and the tweet of the day, which is actually an episode in "when tweeting goes wrong" and contained therein here, let's play "oddball." meg whitman, republican candidate in the california gubernatorial race and supposed internet expert recently received the endorsement of the deputy sheriff association of san diego county. extremely excited, spokeswoman sarah pompeii fired off a tweet announcing "sd cnty sheriff accoc says @whitman 20104 gov."