Thanks to Bookslut for posting this article today. Actually, I don’t thank you at all, since the article turned my stomach with disgust. If it is true, and I do not see why I should doubt the veracity of the article, then we have a great deal of problems here. The article states that a teacher was fired and a student forced to destroy poems that are critical of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration. Uhm, hello? See, here I thought we were still living in the ‘land of the free’. But I guess it’s now the ‘land of free to write praise of us, but not criticize’. And it keeps changing. I am hoping that this is a case of an overeager principal or something, but I think deep down I know it’s just a reflection of what is happening here. Just makes my mood match the weather here in Boston—-grey and cold.