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Even during the supposedly slow Christmas-to-New-Year's stretch, ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½'s cases continued to captivate the media, none more so than the recent brouhaha at Yale over a censored F. Scott Fitzgerald-quoting t-shirt calling Harvard men "sissies." Following Greg's earlier writings in The Huffington Post, Robert wrote on the case for Pajamas Media. (Knowing such PC nonsense when he saw it, Glenn Reynolds them at Instapundit.) Both The Boston Globe and have picked up the story as well. And in a wonderfully caustic post, blogger Ian Wood heaps scorn on Yale, where apparently "the word 'sissies' exists as a similarly ideal and eternal utterance, so paradoxically unbounded by time that an already-stale modern connotation can be projected back into 1920, there to shatter all context." Amen!

Meanwhile, ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½'s headline-grabbing fight for freedom of conscience at the University of Minnesota continues to climb to new heights, capped recently by Adam's terrific op-ed in the New York Post. (Adam also made the latest of his many radio appearances yesterday on the .) Minnesota seems to have capitulated: just before Christmas, FIREannounced that the university's top lawyer promised that Minnesota would never "mandate any particular beliefs, or screen out people with 'wrong beliefs' from the University." The victory at Minnesota was touted in and the , as well as by at Phi Beta Cons. We know we're not out of the woods yet, though, and that Minnesota may have more tricks up its sleeve, as evidenced by and ruthless parsing of the language of attorney Mark B. Rotenberg's letter to ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½. Stay tuned.

And as Robert wrote yesterday, Ohio Post reporter Rebecca McKinsey hits it out of the park with a shedding needed sunlight on Ohio University's speech codes. Let's hope it's a harbinger of a rough 2010 for speech codes and their defenders.