In the spring of 2007, then-Burlington high school senior Avery Doninger sat at her home computer and typed a scathing blog entry that referred to school administrators as “douchebags.”

One might imagine that the outburst would have earned her a couple days of detention or suspension. But no one could have predicted that the insult would still be reverberating two years later – in federal court, in the state legislature, and even in the debate over the merits of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a U.S. Supreme Court nominee.

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