In message 121 on Monday, August 4, 2003, A Student writes:
I didn't mean to sound rude. I apologize. I like American History and I would not like to drop.
-A Student
I read your Mail message on the heels of reading about a witch hunt at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. For the second straight year, there have been attacks on the book chosen as required summer reading for the incoming freshman class. Last year, the book was an explanation of the holy book of Islam, the Koran (Q'ran). Fundamentalist Protestants sued professors at UNC-Chapel Hill for choosing that book. We are waging a WAR against terrorism. For the terrorists, it is a holy war. All of us should have a better grasp of Islam - from the President of the United States to you and me.
This year, the hoopla is over a book about the working poor in the United States: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America. The criticism of this year's book comes from the business community in North Carolina and elsewhere. A best seller on the NYTimes Top 10 list is Treason by Ann Coulter. Coulter proclaims that non-Republicans (mostly Democrats) are traitors. Then, I read your Mail with its reference to my politics. My hackles rose. These are frightening times.
-Dr. Sapper
Frightening times, indeed. Ann Coulter has revived McCarthyism. How could Wisconsin produce the LaFollettes and a McCarthy? The same way Texas could produce a Lyndon Johnson and W. Like it or not, W is more Texan than Lyndon was. Like Lyndon, though, he is leading us into the Big Muddy. Soon, we will be waist deep. Today was the first day without a U.S. casualty in Iraq. John Poindexter wanted to put U.S. casualties up on the Big Board. That is another version of the ol' body count that LBJ received from Robert S. McNamara. Instead of Ford Pintos rolling off the assembly line, it was body bags in 'Nam. Now, on Rummy's watch, we will have body counts as futures contracts. Hell with soybeans and pork bellies. Wag The Dog got it right. Karl Rove might have someone taken out. If he reads this Blog, it might be me.
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