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Friday, May 06, 2005

Today's Fuck You Award Goes To...

....The Man. (Surprise.) A student was suspended for 10 days for not ending a call immediately with his mother, a soldier serving in Iraq on a one-year deployment.

I don't support the war, at all, but I'd have told them "Fuck you," too. Kudos to the kid for knowing better than to diss his mom because some administrative twats couldn't see the difference between talking to your mother in an unstable war zone where she could die any day and talking to Stacey about the sale at the fucking Gap.

Black and white rules are bullshit. There are shades of grey. Some rules are made to bend, particularly when mortar shells and automatic guns in the hands of militants come into the picture. Have some decency. Here's the link.