A thought for the day: from Fran Lebowitz's book Progress, excerpted in the October 2004 Vanity Fair:
Reversion of rights:
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(3) All religious texts will be vetted and, if necessary, revised, by ad hoc committees composed of public librarians, English teachers, literary critics, and writers, in order to ensure that no representative of the secular community is in any way offended.
This seems only fair....
Update: Apparently I should have decorated this with :-) or otherwise indicated that this was intended in fun, as a reductio ad absurdum. Of course I don't want to vet religious texts, any more than I want religious types vetting, or censoring, secular texts. (And nor does Fran Lebowitz, I imagine.) I guess irony is out of fashion....
Oh goodie goodie... lets have a world in which there is no passion, no joy. "Let all get along".. what a crock of crap. Please say this is a joke. More "tollerance"..... yippie. Why not stop tollerating and forcably accepting others and embrase true freedom where we have the freedom to think what we like rather than be made to conform. Sometimes I can't tell whether liberals are funny or scary. Hard to tell when they're serious.
Posted by: freedom_first at September 25, 2004 04:01 AMActually, it looks like *you* could do with the services of a good librarian as well, to find a dictionary - your spelling is abysmal.
Posted by: Spelling Bee at September 25, 2004 04:10 AMAbysmal spelling? Really? I'm always grateful when readers point out typos so that I can correct them. Did you have something particular in mind?
Posted by: Geoff Arnold at September 25, 2004 08:26 AM