[PornoDoggy]

Alex ... got a question for you. An Ontario judge recently sentenced an individual convicted of possession and distribution of child pornography to the laughable sentence of 14 months house arrest 3 months probation. Can I infer from that incident that Canada is a haven for child pornographers?

You and I tend to agree (at least in part) on a lot of issues, but the constant haranguing you've been doing lately is very likely to get you appointed the antiTorone.

There are many schools with the U.S. where a student would be allowed to wear that shirt. Legally, the school is on somewhat questionable ground in view of a 1969 Supreme Court case called Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. The main reason I know of the case is that the one of the named plaintiffs later became a friend of mine in high school. However, the courts have also given schools wide latitude over maintaining order and discipline, and have consistently not given children the same rights as adults. So, as usually happens, it boils down to interpretation.

Me? I think it was political speech and should have been protected - the kid should have been allowed to wear it. But to view this incident - at one school in one of the 553 school districts in the Michigan - as an indication of the lack of freedom of speech in America is a statement right up there with "all liberals are traitors" in the rarified air of the Moron Zone.