Why's he is school ...

... if he knows so much? Give me the lesson without the spin.

... author James Q. Wilson protests: Quit twisting my words. (Hat tip, Dave Lull - for both.)

Notice how similar Master LaClair's reasoning is to that of those dreaded fundamentalists - take something out of context and understand it in a narrow, literal sense. One would have thought that the editor at the LAT who moved the piece would have taken the trouble of seeing if the kid's complaints were valid.