While much of the free world focuses on and criticizes the prison sentence handed down on the members of Pussy Riot in Russia, a school system in Oklahoma has refused to give a straight A student her high school diploma because she used the word "hell" in a graduation speech. (As an aside I am writing this while watching "Hell's Kitchen" on TV, have they renamed this show for Oklahoma networks?) But seriously, am I the only one who sees a connection between the lack of free speech in Moscow and the increasing lack of free speech in the United States. This is where we are headed if the religious right has their agenda is forwarded. Seriously.

nuf said.