CHECKING IN WITH FIRE. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (on whose Board of Advisers the proprietor of this place serves) has taken up the issue of "speech codes" as they work to repress and/or inhibit free advocacy and debate within many American colleges and universities. FIRE's legal director will testify this Wednesday before a major Senate committee. Here's the story from their website. And once you have read it you may want to check out some of the other important stories posted earlier.