Most schools have policies on dress that seek to promote a learning environment free from distraction. Those rules can seem overbearing and out of touch with students since they are created and instituted by people who are not in the same demographic.

And then there are the rules that make it seem like someone just needed something to enforce, so now this is happening.

I stumbled upon this story from Kansas City, where a 4-year-old boy has been barred from his preschool because the principal says his “mohawk” is disruptive.

I would agree with that assessment maybe 5 percent if we were talking about the 9-inch, spiked-up variety. Maybe even if it were multi-colored.

But in this case, it’s as the father describes it, a “modern mohawk.” That’s with the strip of hair down the center maybe one setting longer on the clippers. If you’re not looking for it, you might not even know it’s there.

Maybe we need to organize some fights in this school district. Or even a multi-school drug ring that threatens the very fabric of the education system.

This principal obviously needs something to do. Fortunately, the father says he’s standing up to the hair tyranny and not giving in.

That was the ridiculous. Now the funny.

The Huffington Post says a town in Vermont will consider indicting President Bush and Veep Dick Cheney.

On the agenda for a town meeting, whether to arrest Bush and Cheney on charges of war crimes and obstruction of justice if they ever set foot in the state of Vermont. Purely fantastic.

I came across that news a few hours after reading an excerpt from a book about the Bush administration’s policy’s over the years.

It’s in this week’s Newsweek, and talks about how their thinking and who they relied on for information influenced their decisions, especially regarding Iraq.

The excerpt included one nugget about Scooter Libby and Paul Wolfowitz, who glowingly praised a book written by a friend that says Saddam Hussein was behind every major terrorist attack against America since the 1990s. That would include the first attack on the World Trade Center AND the Oklahoma City bombing.

Now I’m not saying I have all the answer when it comes to politics and foreign policy. But the fact that very high-ranking members of our president’s inner circle have no problem tying Saddam to Timothy McVeigh does make me scratch my head a bit. And then bang it against a wall.

The book is called “The Bush Tragedy.”

Another book report from my project tomorrow.