Timmy Bueler's day off

A 17-year-old Petaluma-area teenager decided to rabble-rouse and raise hell in an extremely non-p.c., subversive way. He asked fellow students to "report un-American comments expressed by your liberal teachers," then issued a newsletter based on what he says were responses. The school authorities, dismayed by his initiative as well as by the angry responses of teachers and other students, asked him to stay home for a few days for a "cooling-off period."

Much as I disdain Bueler's positions, I have to admire any kid who manages to shake up his school just by exercising his free speech rights. Of course, the school did the wrong thing and exacerbated the situation. Schools always do the wrong thing in these instances, and make a mountain out of a sow's ear. Now the kid's a celebrity. (That link has a picture of the rather scary-looking little skinhead.)