In yet another instance of zero-tolerance policies raging ridiculously out of control, a group of seven Colorado elementary school students were sent home from school and otherwise punished for running around the playground during recess, pretending to shoot aliens with their fingers as imaginary weapons. I’m all for gun control, but this is ridiculous.

Somewhat related: it apparently really does stop being all fun and games when someone loses (or at least damages) an eye, as a California seventh grader now faces criminal charges from inadvertently hitting another student (standing some 10 feet away) in the eye with a spitball.

It’s a damn good thing I finished elementary school in the eighties. With all the trouble I caused, in today’s harsher and more litigious environment I’d likely have been incarcerated for life somewhere around second grade.