So I’m still thinking and reading about Berkeley and the Marines. While walking around the protests the other day, many people with Move America Forward said Berkeley was infringing on the Marines’ right to free speech. Oh those crazy pro-war folk. Anthony Swofford’s searing memoir Jarhead includes this instructional piece of dialogue:

“Staff sergeant Siek says, ‘You are marines. There is no such thing as speech that is free. You must pay for everything you say. Especially the unauthorized crap.'”