Well, if it was an English class, big problem. There are far better, less offensive ways to teach persuasive writing.

Are you kidding? That's an incredible, humanizing lesson. It's so easy to write it off as "The Nazis were evil"- Yes, their leader and the organization as a whole was, but how many normally decent German people were swept up by propaganda, fear of their government, fear of the society around them, wanting to belong,…

Don't anyone blow up on me before you hear me out, but is this really in theory a HORRIBLE assignment? In a university course I recently read an essay called "Moral Destruction," which essentially describes the reasons for which Nazism (and Soviet Communism) was able to obtain such a strong foothold, exactly what the…

It almost seems like it should be a badge of honor to have the Westboro church picket your funeral. If they say you're going to hell and call you a "fag-enabler," that's a pretty good sign that you did something right.

Water is wet, Westboro people are assholes. Nothing to see here, moving along.