Yet Another Post on Rod

Honestly, the recent events in the life of Gov Blagojevich (I don't know how to spell his last name, so I'll just call him governor B; or maybe I spelled it right, who knows) do not surprise me one bit. This degree of corruption in the state and cook county departments has been going on for as long as I can remember.
My father, who is a current state employee and a former cook county employee has basically come home and complained over dinner with the crap he has to go through each day. Apparently, most employees of the county or state are completely unqualified for their jobs because they are either cronies of the stroger family or cronies of Governor B. My Dad finds it very difficult to work with these people daily.
But anyway, back to the senate seat cost: "WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ROD?!?!?" I wonder if he thought he would actually get away with selling the senate seat; as if someone wouldn't have rat on him before the feds caught him! What a stupid idiot. He's been getting away with cronie-ism and stealing money from children's hospitals and other institutions for way too long. I hope they lock this man up forever. The End.

Bong Hits for Jesus

This week in American Studies, we've been discussing the supreme court case Morse v. Frederick, or more commonly known as "Bong Hits for Jesus".
In my opinion, I think that the boy who hung the banner that read "Bong hits for Jesus" was being a tad irrational. Usually, I lean pretty far to the left on preserving civil liberties, but I believe the actions of this kid, although hilarious, were stupid and unnecesary. I have a lot of sympathy for the principal; I mean, if my school area were on television and someone hung up a banner with that slogan, I would be sprinting to tear it down out of pure embarrassment.
On a different note, I'm not sure if this is a free speech issue. Is it against school/community rules to hang up banners or signs without the consent of an official? Because if so, the kid deserved to be punished. If the banner were in the school, I would have said that he should have gotten in trouble; but since the banner was in the community, just outside of the school, I'm not so sure. I believe that the kid should have gotten in trouble, but I don't think that he should have gotten suspended. Also, if you don't need consent for hanging banners in the community, the boy should not have gotten in trouble.