Whoever stamped ”DENIED” across my document clearly felt justified in defacing it. Though petty, this was a hostile act - another tiny blow in the insidious war on free thought. …

Instead of gossiping at the water cooler, today’s privileged jugend hover in packs around TV monitors to mock the usual suspects - poor old Sarah Palin, the Tea Partiers, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Miss California (chivalry is deader than dead). Together, they telegraph their warning to anyone who might disagree: don’t.

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Twenty-somethings are fond of declaring, “It’s a free country!” But is it? Really? [T]hese kids - who see nothing odd about surrounding themselves with creepy, halo’d icons of The One - mock folks who actually make the effort to exercise their right to free speech on talk radio, at Tea Parties, and at workplace printers.

They think this double standard is perfectly normal.

Read the whole thing. I think the reason they think it’s perfectly normal to mock and disparage anyone who disagrees with them is because it’s what Jon Stewart does. It also plays into the whole Cult-of-Personality, Dear-Leader, Don’t-You-Dare-Question-BHO thing that so many of us who are still capable of critical thought find off-putting about the Cult-of-the-One.

Another brick in the wall.

Their awakening will be a rude one Miss Merrie. Let's hope its not that long in coming.

I would definitely take the complaint to your superiors, except for the fact that they would probably wonder what the heck you were doing reading newspaper sites and printing them out using company time and equipment.

Rightwingers' selective moral outrage is kind of funny. I suppose next, after 8 years of being comatose, they'll wake up complaining that Obama is spending too much.