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Time was, Brother Ed,
when folks like you knew their
place.

Times have changed. Readers
find themselves increasingly
subjected to the sort of
semi-literate diatribe that is
currently fashionable in
crypto-radical circles. The
cant-words sprinkled
throughout like warts on a
toad "lackey", "oppressive",
"degraded" and all the weary,
weary rest of them might have
raised eyebrows forty or fifty
years ago. Now their staleness
serves only to numb the brain.
(The word "irrelevant" went
out with skateboards.)

Did you really think you
were setting down fresh ideas?
Reliance on such burnt-out
imagery as "festering sore of
injustice" and cesspool of
perverted fraternities" proves,
Brother Ed, the complete lack
of substance in your train of
thought. The best example is
the hilarious "You have raped
enough of our bleach(ed)-brain
sisters with your impotency."
How anyone can be "raped"
by "impotency" is beyond me.

Brother Ed, you are a racist
of the first order. You show
that mental debility peculiar to
certain "oppressed" peoples, a
sort of histrionic masochism;
you glory in your suffering and
bad grammar. One doubts that
the "criminal" policies of our
"transvestite" administrators
will be much swayed by the
slander and illogic of your
half-thought-out harangue.

Forcing your thoughts into
print is of course gratifying,
Brother Ed, and stirring up
controversy over nothing is
doubtless even more so, but so
far your contributions to

"Wahoo consciousness" has
been less than adequate, it
more than sufficiently coarse.