I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception

The award-winning drama students of El Camino Real High School in Los Angeles need to raise some money, so they decided to perform the satirical play, "The Complete History of America (Abridged)." The original script jacket depicts George Washington with a Groucho Marx mustache and cigar, so the students' poster design showed George W. Bush with a Groucho Marx mustache and cigar.

Enter the form of ignorance that irks me to no end: frame-of-reference deficiency. One student--count 'em!--complained about the poster. In addition to objecting to the makeover of the president, he also complained that the poster made Bush look like an Israeli (Bush should be so lucky). The result? You've already guessed it: The posters are gone.

Aside from the obvious fact that at an institution of learning it would have been more instructive to explain irony and continuity to the offended student, there is another issue at play here: How many times, in the past several months, have we been told over and over by Bush supporters that the Constitution absolutely is not intended to protect the minority?