Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Resume Builder?
What else is there to say about the honors student who made the bizarre decision to (1) dress up as Hitler for Halloween at Leon M. Goldstein High School in Brooklyn, and then (2) agree to pose for pictures for the N.Y. Post after getting some heat from school officials because of it.Sure you can make it a free speech issue, but as someone who had a nasty habit of creating silly free speech issues when I was in high school I can tell you it doesn't exactly help when it comes to finding a prom date. (Chicks don't dig the First Amendment as much as you think, fuhrer. And that mustache - fugheddabout it.)
The kid says he was trying to be like Monty Python or Mel Brooks. But those guys are funny. The pictures in the Post seemed to fall more on the creepy side of the spectrum than the funny side.
I think the school's dean, Paul Puglia, was onto something when, according to the Post, he asked the young-fascist: "Are you out of your mind, you idiot?"
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