Friday, May 27, 2005

Dear Readers

To our two readers: Wyatt is disconnected from the internet right now as he moves. That's why he hasn't been posting.

So, as long as he's away, here's another thing that pisses me off:

Some high school students in LA had to take down posters advertising their school play because the posters had an image of George Bush that made him look like Groucho Marx.

Apparently one, single student was offended by the association between the President and one of the great comedians of the early part of last century. And the Principal of the school thus thought it necessary to remove the posters.

The students replaced the Groucho W. Marx posters with posters saying, "Free Expression for All (unless you are in high school)" and "What First Amendment?"

The Principal's reaction to these posters? "'They're good,' Lee said. 'I like the follow-ups.'"

No, no, no. That's so evil.

He takes down the posters that are genuine political expression but when the kids put up posters implicitly criticizing his taking down of the original posters and harmlessly asserting their rights, he says that those posters are acceptable thereby implicitly asserting his ability to censor the messages they put up.

It's circular and hurts my mind.

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