What's Too Indy for Indy?

Via A Small Victory, I learn that it's possible to see posts that have been pulled from IndyMedia sites, for instance from NY IndyMedia, by moderators.

Comments

[dfk]

Very strange. I clicked on many of the deleted items and could see nothing wrong with them (at least for that site.) Wierd.

[Kotter]

Yeah, weird indeed!

Excuse me, Julian, for the sidetrack ... (I wish one of you guys would put this up as a topic for discussion on H&R.) The following doesn't actually pertain to your current topic, but I was flabbergasted to read the ridiculousness of a court ruling on Reason's homepage, under Daily Brickbat, titled,

We Know Who The Genius Is (8/25)

I had to take my jaw off the desk when I read the following in the linked newspaper article, "Angela was not legally free to skip high school," [said the judge.]

READ THE ARTICLE! IT'LL FLOOR YOU, TOO!

[Thomas]

I read the article you mentioned, Kotter. And you're right. It's absurd.

But contrast it with this, where a 12-year-old boy is going for his doctorate!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95544,00.html

[Russ]

Thanks for the link. Reading about kids like these two is certainly uplifting. It restores some of my faith in the future of humanity at a time when we're being overwhelmed by a hoard of apathetic underachievers.