Peeve:

The new definition of "stimulus"   i.e. to bail out, to spend other people's money.  Synonym: WPA, government micromanagement, redistribution of $.

Passion:

I just discovered khanacademy.org on Youtube after seeing the creator on John Stossel's special, Stupid in America.  How exciting.  This is how all education should be.  When I was in college, I thought all learning would be like this: self paced, with corrective feedback and tutorials when you needed special help.  Even then, we B.F Skinner followers knew that "programmed instruction"  worked to help all learners, not to simply bring down the slower weaker ones, as current methods do. Delighted to see some teachers incorporating the web lessons into their classrooms  so that they, the teachers,can really teach. 
I will be upgrading my math and science knowledge, and skill using  Khan's site.