By Favio Snimp on March 20, 2007
The United States Supreme Court is hearing a landmark case. Its decision will determine The Bush Supreme’s place in history — as either “cool” or “dork.”
In 2002 a Juneau, Alaska, high school student named Joseph Frederick, who with classmates was greeting Olympic torch bearers and the attendant press hoo-ha, added his own bit to the ceremony. He unfurled a 14-foot banner that read “BONG HITS 4 JESUS.”
Anyone who wasn’t a dork in high school knew Frederick had pulled off a first-class joke. One, the sign made no sense whatsoever except as absurdist irony. Two, the dorks would panic on cue: A secret pro-Satan message had been released! It’s an airborne toxic event!
And, of course, “Won’t somebody please think of the children?”
Frederick was suspended from school, etc., etc., and now here we are once more enduring the great minds of today, figuring out how a silly, innocuous slogan must be controlled lest Western Civilization collapse.
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Dahlia Lithwick of Slate has a funny dispatch from the court today, mixing the history of free speech with insight on each of the judges’ lines of questioning.
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And look who has resurfaced as the muffle-free-speech attorney in the case: God’s own crusader for righteousness under the law, Ken Starr, pictured here with former Bush drug czar Barry McCaffrey (AP photo).
I knew it! You guys are dorks.
It’s “da kine” not “the kind.”
Jesus would probably know the diff between the kind, in a packing sense, and da kine, in the pidgin sense, but it begs the question whether one of the kind can do da kine. Be that as it may, in regards to the latter:
Jesus say, “God wen get so plenny love an aloha fo da peopo inside da world, dat he wen send me, his one an ony Boy, so dat everybody dat trus me no get cut off from God, but get da kine life dat stay to da max foeva.” (John 3:16)