Archive for January, 2004

Balance Sheet

Assets
Protected Shirt
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit unanimously rules that a Virginia middle school had no good reason to ban an "NRA Sports Shooting Camp" T-shirt just because it had a gun on it. The school district could not show that the shirt had caused any disturbance.
Kyoto Climax
Signals from […]

Teenage Wasteland

Kid Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to America’s Children, edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 267 pages, $29.95
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, by Alissa Quart, Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 239 pages, $25
Hollywood has become to the right what big corporations are to the left. When it […]