The Occasional Tendown: Easterdown 2013

Dear Internet: It's a Tradition unlike any other.  Easterdown! 153 is here. This is Tendown 154. 1. Meanwhile, in Florida About 15 years ago, when I was just starting to teach, I had a lesson on symbolic speech where I asked students if my tearing up an American flag would be offensive. After getting some measure of equal action on both sides I took a piece of loose leaf notebook paper,