Friday Open Thread
In one Nebraska high school, students are being granted the right to pose with their firearms for senior pictures . (No, it's not the Onion.) From Mother Jones: “The board, I believe, felt they wanted to give students who are involved in those kinds of things the opportunity to take a senior picture with their hobby, with their sport, just like anybody with any other hobby or sport,” Superintendent Mark Sievering explained to local paper, the Omaha World-Herald. As for the "tasteful" requirement, that means classy poses only folks: no photos with weapons pointed at the camera, no brandishing of weapons, and no "scantily clad girls." Can't they just take a photo? In the yearbooks I was in, it was a simple head and shoulders shot. Change.org has a petition up for saving recess in Seattle Schools. I may have put this up before but it's worth showing again. Long ago, there was a girl singer named Lesley Gore who sang a brilliant song, ...