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Entry: Poor, Poor, Pitiful Ann Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/poor_poor_pitiful_ann#489 Post contents: Sticks and Stones" Editorial license notwithstanding, some of the things we "choose" to say might better be structured in deference to those whom we may only alienate--our goal being to make our opinions more appealing to all, inclusively. In this vein, we highlight the absurdity of labeling and criminalizing various usage of language or thought which the power-brokers themselves have promulgated especially for the purpose of further alienating specific groups, i.e., "Divide and conquer". And if public thought is to be regulated, shouldn't we also have a sort of "equal time" amendment requiring television, publishing houses, government, etc., to neither protect nor portray any one group as more a perpetrator or victim of deed, word or thought over another? Miss Coulter's chosen example, homosexuals, is indeed, a softer variety target but she deftly succeeds in highlighting a decidedly discriminating hierarchy of protection afforded chosen groups, both majority and minority. It's fairly easy to predict how the media-nurtured masses will react to these otherwise mundane verbal flares. As a child, you were taught, "Sticks and stones may break bones but names will never hurt". That was before you went to law school. As far as perpetuating the hierarchical "war between the victims", we may only have ourselves to blame. Sent at: 2008 08 30