If you’d like to watch something else that’s really funny (on a number of levels, and more than a little creepy also) have a look at Bill Gates at this year’s TED conference.

First he unleashes mosquitos on the audience and shows a bunch of graphs demonstrating how malaria was virtually eliminated in wealthy (first world, market-based) countries. Then he browbeats bald white men and says the market doesn’t work. But that’s not the best part:

At 15:35 or so in the presentation, as part of his talk about how to reform education in America, he actually takes a shot at teacher’s unions (but doesn’t name them, that would be gauche):

“In the teacher’s contract it will limit the number of times the principal can come into the classroom. Sometimes to once per year, and they need advance notice to do that. So imagine running a factory where you’ve got these workers, some of them just making…crap, and the management is told, ‘Hey, you can only come down here once a year, but you need to let us know, because we might actually fool you and try and do a good job in that one brief moment.”

Whew! I wonder why the market isn’t working in those schools, Bill? Maybe we’ll be the next third world. Then Bill Gates will be telling us all how market-based reforms are needed in American education. Or maybe he already is. Or something. It’s a mystery.

Watch it yourself starting at 15:35, here.

And I note in passing that I’ll be the millions of high-school dropouts in America love their XBox 360′s, Bill.