If you quote more than four words, it’s not fair use?

Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) - Boing Boing
In the name of “defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt” the Associated Press is now selling “quotation licenses” that allow bloggers, journallers, and [...]

Be careful what you wish for

Religious handouts still a touchy subject for Plano schools | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News
Plano has been the center of debate over religious expression since 2003, when school officials told an 8-year-old boy during a holiday party that he could not hand out pens that described the Christian origin [...]

Another sign of the decline of civilization

Thank you Roddy for bringing this to everyone’s attention.
MySA.com: Metro | State
Meanwhile, BOA members can only wait and reminisce about the good ol’ praying days.
“We used to have a minister named Oscar Williams on the board,” BOA member Mike Gallagher recalled. “He always asked the Lord to give us wisdom and to help us make [...]