The right-wing censorship machine rolls on

Florida Gulf Coast University cancels a scheduled speech by author Terry Tempest Williams "after President William Merwin and the board of trustees decided Wednesday that the forum would be too politically unbalanced and negative toward President Bush."

As Williams points out, "the school’s 13 trustees, six of whom are directly appointed by the governor, have ties to the Bush family." And university administrators know who controls their purse strings.