Free speech, awesome as it is, also inevitably means stupid speech. Case in point: My brother, a freshman at UW-Stout, sent me this link to a video showing the protest-counterprotest clash between 10 members of the anti-gay WBC, “some crazy Baptist church” according to my bro, and a couple hundred Stout students around 7:30 a.m. Thursday. The University told the students not to counterprotest. They obviously did anyway and anti-gay protesters left after 15 minutes.

I’m told the WBC members are also planning to make an appearance at the funeral of one of the students who died in a recent off-campus housefire because they think that if you die in a fire, you had to have done something to deserve it. (You can see this on one of the posters in the video.) Sick stuff.

On a lighter note, though, my brother also informed me that he’ll be attending the “The Great Porn Debate” between Ron Jeremy and Craig Gross, a pastor. The two will be discussing the impact of porn on society today. Awesome.