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Roger Loeb's avatar

I applaud your concise and direct explanation of the exceptions to the First Amendment. It would, however, be much more valuable if a significant portion of the adult population in this country was capable of understanding what you wrote or even of understanding how our justice system is supposed to work. Most schools no longer teach "civics," leaving a substantial part of our citizenry ignorant about our form of government and the cleverness of its design. [I recall my high school civics class, although not fondly, but only because the teacher required us to walk down to city hall and listen to some guy who was running for president. When we returned to class, he asked for our reactions. My gut instinct suggested that the guy shouldn't be trusted, and I said so. Yup, I got sent to the principal's office, and you've now deduced that the candidate was Richard Nixon. Probably learned more from that episode than from any other part of that class...]

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Steve's avatar

How have 20 comments gone by and nobody asked you the story of the time your wife went to the mailbox and came back with a letter asking you for child support for a ten-year-old probably named Carlos?

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