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For All You Firefly Fans Out There
For those FIREfans who are also Firefly fans (as we recently found out, the two groups include many of the same members), we thought you might enjoy the first graphic I jokingly made to celebrate UW-Stout's decision to back down from its censorship of Professor James Miller's Firefly and anti-fascism posters (we used this one instead). If you're not a fan of the show, just skip on ahead to the next blog entry.
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