Everybody's free to steal sunscreen
Oddly enough, I believe this edition of Rhymes With Orange was produced long before this principal was caught plagiarizing two graduation speeches -- including the famous sunscreen speech written by Mary Schmich just days before my own college graudation in 1997. (I've mentioned this before, but I posted that column on the Trib's Web site -- just not in the format linked above -- during my brief internship there.)

While there's usual amount of hand-wringing and "everyone's plagiarizing, so what" reactions, it was interesting to get Mary's reaction to her work being attributed to yet another person besides herself. I am curious that someone could pass that particular speech off as his or her own given it was turned into a book, there was that Kurt Vonnegut urban legend, and last but not least, the Baz Luhrman song which originally reminded me that of the column in the first place.

Then again, awareness of pop culture isn't everyone's cup of tea, as evidenced by the confusion brought about when Napoleon Dynamite invaded the National Spelling Bee.