Cutting no slack for Romans and Rebels

The Washington Times ^ | 12-3-04 | Wesley Pruden

[JZelle]

What will our soreheads do when every obstacle to happiness is removed, every slight is avenged, every rough place is made smooth and every unpleasant fact erased from our history books? We may soon find out. The job is just about finished. We're down now to mopping up the trivial stuff. A school administrator in Cupertino, Calif., banished the Declaration of Independence from the curriculum because its references to God might damage the psyches of aspiring little atheists in junior high civics classes. A little learning can be a dangerous thing, so we must impart as little l

[2banana]

The Swedes, who have given us the meatball as well as the dumb blonde, are particularly sensitive to slights others are guilty of, and now a scholar in Stockholm has written a scholarly history of Latin, which started out as "the story of the world's most successful language" and became, when the professor was overcome with revulsion, a catalog of how politically incorrect the Romans were.

Wait until this guys studies the history of islam...