Say "nigger." Say it! SAY IT!!! Don't you feel better now? My grandpa was a farmer and a well read, thoughtful and educated man. I remember about two years before he died a group of us were standing in the family graveyard and Grandpa was telling us about the family's slave, Pete, who had stayed with the family as a hired hand after the Civil War. This was a story from a time so beyond most living people's experience as to be incomprehensible. He dug this man's grave as a teen and recalled him with great fondness and admiration. At some point he was quoting someone else saying something about how none of his other friends would swim with "niggers" and one of my aunts scolded him for using that word saying, "we don't say that any more." When my grandpa spoke you should listen because he was a very quiet and observant man. The expression that crossed his face at that moment said more than words can express as to the idiocy that is political correctness. He is using a language that has been banished in error because that language contains history. We make simple descriptions impossible and make divisions deeper and more concrete with these restrictions on our use of words. They actually call cripples "otherly enabled" these days. "Disabled" isn't too bad of a PC-ism but "otherly enabled" is insanity. And what is wrong with "cripple?" It has negative connotations. Well guess what? Being crippled is negative. You may be doing well but you're still fucking crippled!!! That is generally less positive than being healthy and whole but for some reason it's wrong to acknowledge this simple fact. These days you get grief for pointing out differences in skin color. How long til it's non-PC to notice people have different colored hair? Or nipples? "She's got big, pink nipples." "You pig! We call them 'oversized non-brown nipples.'" It's your fault! You know who you are. You have nothing to worry about if you didn't do anything wrong. What is wrong? you ask? We'll tell you that later... www.psychicreform.com Who let that monkey in here!?! Dada is dead. Watch your overcoat. "Dissent is what rescues democracy from a slow death behind closed doors." -Lewis H. Lapham