HBO’s Last Week Tonight is the Mongol Horde of Journalism

I mean that as a compliment. When Last Week Tonight and it's avuncular host, John Oliver, decide to go to war against something, they take a scorched-earth approach. Whatever they attack is left in ashes, burned, salted and defiled. If John Oliver focused on me, even I would think I was the world's biggest asshole by the end.

I kind of knew school testing was a mess because I know teachers who tell me it is. I didn't know that it is the ultimate nightmare of bureaucratic numb-fuckery until Last Week set it in their cross-hairs.

How bad is it? Why don't you ask the avacado that lost a race to a rabbit?