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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Does This Hat
Make Me Look
Like a Dick?


Not only did the Supremes today say military recruiters on campus were fine with them; they also refused to hear the case against Washburn College, accused of offending Catholics by featuring on its campus (years ago; it’s long since vanished) this sculpture of a bishop with a phallic miter.

“The Supreme Court's refusal to take up the case was the final blow to the student and professor who sued,” reports the Topeka Capital-Journal.