"Real censorship occurs when any government employee restricts access to any materials conveying information or ideas for political or religious reasons. Say, a schoolteacher employed at a public school during school hours."

Fairly broad and silly interpretion, if you are applying it to a teacher telling a student not to read a book in a class. Why limit it to books? How about video games, comics, cell calls, etc?

"Why would it be censorship if it were the Bible, and not for another book? Because you only think that the Bible can be censored? Oh, and books by the Swift Boat people?"

It was my point that it wouldn't be censorship if for example the teacher told a student not to read the Bible or a book by the "Swift Boat people". Rather my point was that a teacher should be able make decisions and it's possible that a teacher can make a wrong call. I don't expect a teacher to be able to read the minds of their students. Or even to be particularly intelligent. But even if the teacher had known that this book was necessary material for something that was part of a school project, it *still* isn't clear that this assignment was supposed to done in home period. I wasn't there, just like I wasn't 3 feet from home plate when what looks like a ball was called a strike.

Of course the real solution is for parents to have real choices of who is teaching their children, rather than the state having to impose all kinds of silly rules hampering the ability of teachers to teach.

"BTW, your guy won. You really really want to continue to talk about the candidates' military records?"

Sure. I would rather this discussion occur after the election, than a before the election- more chance to get non-partisan information. Who knows, maybe the Lefty PBS will now run what Sinclair [Stolen Honor] was censored on before the election. [It's only fair, considering the slam Frontline did on Bush before the election:]