Ban POTUS

I'm sorry, but this just strikes me as silly, the whole don't-let-kids-hear-the-president thing. Still, there's at least one point of view that's intelligent on the subject, and I pass it along. You should draw your own conclusions.

The medium is the message. The speech will be a pile of platitudes, not an overtly ideological address. But the exercise itself has ideological undertones, with an implicit lesson that reinforces the bipartisan cult of the presidency. The man in the Oval Office is not supposed to be the nation's chief guidance counselor or its father-in-chief, and it sends a creepy message to act as though he is. More...