Desperately seeking topics
I hit a big brick wall with topics for the blog. Maybe its the heat.
There isn’t anything worthwhile to talk about cause most everything that’s in the news is already over-played. Except for this little item that I hope doesn’t get drowned out by the rest of the salacious and celebrity news. In a 8-1 ruling yesterday, the Supreme Court decided that the strip search of the young girl suspected of having 2 advils on her person was unconstitutional. It’s a sort of complicated ruling that casts no actual blame on the motives of the school officials. The justices wrote that they believed the officials were trying to protect the students of the school. From what, I’m not entirely sure but I’m glad to hear that the court ruled in favor of the young girl albeit in a sort of non-precedent setting way. I understand the difficult nature of protecting students in an era of cell-phones, texting, 24-hr. news, and an explosion of prescription drugs for just about everything one can think of. But I firmly believe that 13-year old kids, no matter how much they posture and preen, are still just 13-year old kids. And I don’t think they should be subjected to humiliation under any circumstances.
On a side note, there are several articles about the ruling (this one on the NYTimes site is the one that I read this morning) but the article and the ruling sent me to the Supreme Court official site so I could read the full opinion. Go there – http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ – and tell me if you’re as shocked as I was at how crappy the site is. It took forever to load and looks like it was designed by somebody who’s never designed a powerpoint presentation before, let alone a website! I mean, seriously. Come on! You’re the SCOTUS. You ought to have at least a slightly better looking website. At the very least, get a better graphic of the official seal on there. Take a tip from the Obama administration’s web gurus and get yourself some graphic designers while you’re at it.
