New York Post creates permanent unemployment.

[theweaselking]

The constitutionality of a government employee's speech is contingent on whether or not that speech creates a distraction in the workplace and, if it does, it is not protected so long as the distraction outweighs its political worth. This is the same reason that a soldier, according to people like John McCain, shouldn't announce that he or she is gay. Doing so, the argument goes, would create a "mortal distraction." In the case of the Hooker Teacher, in order to fire me the DOE needed only to prove that my writing created a disruption in my school community and that such a disruption had little societal value. Whether it was my speech or the speech of the New York Post that created the disruption was, of course, an argument to be made.

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[jaundicedaye.livejournal.com]

Dead or incomplete link

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I get "The "Hooker Teacher" tells all" at salon.com.

What's the URL you're hitting?

EDIT:
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/05/04/hooker_teacher_what_i_was_thinking/index.html

[jaundicedaye.livejournal.com]

Huh? Now it works. Before I was getting a "can't find link" message on several tries. Must be me. Sorry