- "The Duck Test" by anonymous

Have you ever received a message from a friend that he got from a friend of a friend of a friend that tells you about something that gets you all riled up or that you feel you need to do something about? The truth is that these messages are mostly in the category of "tall tales."

And a very new tall tale that's doing the rounds concerns this story: "Education Department officials are threatening school principals with lawsuits if they fail to monitor and curb students' lunchtime chat and evening Facebook time for expressing ideas and words that are deemed by Washington special-interest groups to be harassment of some students."

My path to reading this somewhat outrageous assertion started when a close friend forwarded a link to titled "Big Brother? Feds Order Schools to Monitor Kids Facebook Posts & Lunchtime Chatter" in an online publication called "The Blaze".