Mike Luckovich for September 17, 2015

A natural precaution: Those are Arabic Numerals on the clock! (-

Works like a champ!

Nice header Mike.

TX has open carry? If so then he would have been better bringing an AR-15. No one could touch him then.

Great toon!

While I can empathize (somewhat) with an initial reaction of worry, concern, or even alarm, somebody in that chain of people should have taken a moment to consider what it exactly was and halted the snowballing. Arresting a child, putting him handcuffs is heart-rending, even when the child really did something irrefutably bad. But doing it to a nerdy kid who only wanted to show off his smarts is sad.

I saw the interview with the cop where he explained that he asked the kid why he built the clock and did not get a good reply. Well, what did he think – a kid of 14 would come out and say, ‘just to show off to my teacher’? It’s time they started picking cops with the right temperament to be school resource officers.

Who has killed more people on US soil this year?Is itA. Muslim Radicals with bombs?B. Right-Wing American Radicals with guns?

Well, Gawker claims to have found at least seven examples of White kids bringing science projects to school without being hand-cuffed. I can add two more: my kids took science projects to school and weren’t arrested and handcuffed. So yes, race and religion are very likely to have had something to do with this. Texas is famous for bigotry, so unless you can come up with a more plausible theory, I’ll go with bigotry.

californicated1True. The Arabic language uses an entirely different system of numbers. It was the concept of zero (also originally from India) and column placement learned from the more educated Arabs during the Crusades, that enabled the backward Europeans to emerge from the Dark Ages.

Welcome to Paranoiaville. The terrorists have won.

Fear and loathing, mostly fear, are all across America, bin Laden won exactly what he wanted to happen.

The teachers and authorities kept saying that “it looks like a bomb”.

If they really thought it was a bomb, why did they not evacuate the school?

But if the KNEW it was NOT a bomb, why did they put the kid in handcuffs?

And did they really believe that the kid would take a bomb to school and show it to two teachers?

Of course. Why seek the truth when a lie and panic are better?

ChevJames007I once lived in Irving – 82 years ago. Fortunately, my parents got me out of there at age 6 months. There, but for the grace of God and the Methodist itinerancy, I might have been like them.

A police spokesman said the kid was held because he refused to cooperate. He kept insisting that the device was a clock.

It WAS a clock.

The kid was charged with bringing a hoax bomb to school.

Q. Was it a bomb?A. No, so he couldn’t be charged with bringing an actual bomb to school.

Q. Did the kid claim it was a bomb?A. No, so how could he be charged with a hoax. A hoax is when someone makes a claim that turns out to be false.

I hope the kid sues the school and the police for false arrest. I don’t see how the police can argue that they had probable cause.

Bomba-phobes or nerd-a-phobic dumbasses are not necessarily islamaphobes.

These authorities would have treated a white kid the same due to their zero-judgement, zero-thinking, zero-justice, zero tolerance policies, given their complete incompetence at evaluating home-assembled electronics that contain no explosives, no detonator, no suspicious chemicals, and no extra wires.

It was the media that decided this was islamaphobia without any apparent evidence other than media bias towards seeing bigotry everywhere in the south.

Agewalker and AgentSmith101 and nobelpa all got it right.