On Monday, June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court limited students’ First Amendment rights with one ruling and eased restrictions on campaign ads with another. In other words, they got it exactly wrong. Public schools should be places where information and ideas flow freely, whereas someone needs to stanch the influx of money that is poisoning our political system.

It is interesting that this is the work of a “conservative” court.

There’s a meme going around the blogosphere right now that has bloggers interviewing each other. (According to Answers.com, a meme is, “A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.”) I decided to throw my hat into the ring, and as a result have been interviewed by blogger, writer, and artist Thom Gladhill: (more…)