Have you seen this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer somewhere in the blogosphere? (Or, who knows: maybe even in the Philadelphia Inquirer itself?) Very interesting. Very true-to-life. A teacher, now fired, has a blog. She used the blog to dump on one of her students. She did not name the girl. But the girl had done something really outrageous: give a speech expressing a conservative point of view. The teacher in question does not like conservatism — at all. She’s an Obama gal. And she made clear that her charges were supposed to support O and oppose Bush. The parents of the dumped-on student complained. The teacher then blogged about them: saying that she was “dealing with some hard-core provincialism — not to mention intolerance of anything but ultraconservative views.” A very interesting little drama, with wrinkle after wrinkle: all filling the conservative nose with disgust. The teacher taught at a private school in the Philadelphia area — a Catholic school. I think if she had taught in an ordinary public school, she would have been fine. Golden. The recipient of awards. You know the deal . . .