I Feel Safer Today Than I Did Yesterday
An eastern Washington (Prosser) high school art teacher posing as a nurturer of talent and self-expression narc-ed on a student that drew, among other antiwar drawings, a muslimy looking guy with GWB’s head on a stick, under a caption advocating the end of the war in Iraq. The teacher was so unnerved by the violence in the drawings that he took them to the principal, who took them to the police, who notified the Secret Service, who took either a black limosine, black SUV or a black helicopter (or maybe all three) out into the sagebrush to question the seditious 15-year-old.
These (the school officials) are people who live less than 50 miles from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation…and they’re spooked by a 15-year-old kid with a pencil and a little lack of nuance in his satirical renderings. Personally, I think it’s a toss-up as to which is scarier - Bush’s head on a stick, or attached to his body. It probably functions equally poorly grafted to either host. The lad was not expelled (the pen may be mightier than the sword, but it gets through the school’s metal detectors), but was given an undisclosed punishment. I vote for repetitive viewings of The Passion and an essay on how we can channel our violent thoughts into positive art.
