We've got people left and right pledging, and we still have business executives trashing their companies, city governments closing community hospitals, and national congresses voting pork on pork for the good of America. As many of these are people who grew up saying the pledge, with the word "God" in it, and it didn't do all that much to help them in the "let's help my country and my community before myself" category, pardon me if I'm just a least bit skeptical of the hue and cry (and photo ops) that are occurring as a result of this ruling.

Curtailing privacy rights on young people participating in after school activities is of just a little more importance, in my book, than Congressional sound-bites...errr "outrage"...over the 9th Circuit's decision. The young people targeted by the ruling aren't the one's that are most likely to have a substance abuse problem or to be at risk of having a problem. It's a cheap solution (testing instead of education), on the wrong population (achieving teens vs. at risk ones) that will more than likely turn out the wrong results (teens who've experimented vs. those with a chronic problem) for the wrong reason ("out of control" young people.)