Sound and Fury - Does anyone get what's really going on in the case of the Lousiana schoolboy reprimanded for using the word "gay"? The story has sure been sensationalized by the media. Mainstream outlets parroted gay sites which originally claimed the boy merely referred to his mom, who is in fact a lesbian. Now it sounds like the boy told a classmate she was gay, too, which as much as anything was what provoked the disciplinary action. Just another example of how the facts get distorted (or at least take on unrelated meaning) when the interest groups and pundits start weighing in. This kind of thing wouldn't happen if, like when I was growing up, you didn't mix the sexes as early as second grade!