I don't have time to read the Newport Daily News every day, so I rely on the other bloggers here on the Island to pick up the good (or, well, crazy) stuff. And this is a doozy. Did Portsmouth HS Principal Littlefield lie about the drop-dead date for printing the yearbook in order to turn up the heat on sword-wielding SCA senior Patrick Agin?

"First, school officials have admitted that last Monday was not the deadline for submitting yearbook photos. The deadline for publishing the yearbook is actually February 28, two months from now. In light of this new deadline, the ACLU has agreed to withdraw its motion for a temporary restraining order prohibiting the school from printing the yearbook without Agin's picture." — via Newport9

As Newport9 blogger Thomas Kalinowski asks, where did that earlier, fake deadline come from? It couldn't have been Littlefield lying. Could it?

Part of me has to wonder. Was this whole thing some kind of bizarre reverse-fake? Did the PSD want to do something, anything to push Caruolo below the fold? That, unfortunately, is the most charitable explanation I can manage. I suspect there will be some questions about Littlefield's conduct at the next School Committee meeting.