Hickville Dispach©

So I says to myself, "You've got only a few minutes, but you need to get some more InappropriateContent up there. Where can I go for guaranteed idiocy?" Why, our Hickville Dispach© standard-bearer, Salt Lake City's second-best newspaper (after this) the Salt Lake Tribune.

And, sure enough, the front page of the June 21 has an article on Hillcrest High School that seems a mite familiar.

From left, Ryan Cheek, Cody McCook, Samantha Harman,
Alivia Huffman, Jessica Hunter and Michael Kaneko
show off T-shirt messages that have landed
some students at the Midvale school in hot water.
(Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune)

Sure enough, this is the exact same high school and the exact same tee-shirt from the last Dispach© covered more than a month ago. Seems Hillcrest administration, previously noted for banning "Queers Kick Ash" tee shirts has been taking swipes at anti-war tees for over a year:

The crackdown also extended to anti-war T-shirts with slogans such as "Drop Doughnuts, Not Bombs" and "No Blood for Oil." School officials concede that they discouraged students from wearing anti-war T-shirts -- especially immediately after U.S. troops invaded Iraq.

I'll not comment, except for one more excerpt:

Tom Hutton, an attorney for the Virginia-based National School Boards Association, says judges consider two avenues of legal thought when it comes to "T-shirt jurisprudence."

I know what avenuse of thought I'd be considering if I ever had to consider "T-shirt jurisprudence," and none of them are legal.

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