Daily Archives: 21 March 2007
Barbarians at the Gate
This has the potential to be really nasty. Way back in 2002, a student at a high school in Alaska held up a sign that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” to TV cameras at an Olympic Torch Relay. The sign was confiscated and the student suspended from school for – get this – “advocating drug use,” which is “contrary to the mission of the school.” In other words, forget that pesky First Amendment thingee (whatever WERE the Founding Fathers thinking?) – the student was expressing an opinion the school disapproves of. Now, by all rights this should be a no-brainer
A Brief and Mild Panic Attack
I keep seeing these annoying license plates around: Over the past few days I’ve probably seen 5 – so many that I started to worry that this was the new license plate design for Indiana. In fact, I spent most of the 40min. walk home fuming about having to put one on my car and debating about whether it would be worth paying the fee for an alternative. I mean, on the one hand, I don’t want sentimental, superstitious crap I don’t believe in plastered over my car. On the other, it feels a bit like paying a mugger for
