Sir:
Based on hecklers's response to my previous letter, I believe it's safe to say that there's an insolent jackanape born every minute. It may help if I begin my discussion by relating an innocuous story in order to illustrate my point: A few days ago I was arguing with a particularly barbaric cretin who was insisting that everyone who doesn't share hecklers's beliefs is an oppressive, lackluster flake deserving of death and damnation. I tried to convince this baleful dork that hecklers's maudlin preoccupation with revanchism, usually sicklied over with such nonsense words as ''homeotransplantation'', would make sense if a person's honor were determined strictly by his or her ability to destroy the lives of good, honest people. As that's not the case, we can conclude only that it is not uncommon for hecklers to victimize the innocent, penalize the victim for making any effort to defend himself, and then paint the whole effete affair as some great benefit to humanity. I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that I frequently talk about how hecklers's hatchet jobs are way off base. I would drop the subject, except that the real question here is not, ''Why, in the name of all that is good and holy, does it want to destroy the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic study?''. The real question is rather, ''How can it be so Pecksniffian?'' I'll tell you the answer in a moment. But first, let me just say that if it makes fun of me or insults me, I hear it, and it hurts. But I take solace in the fact that I am still able to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic. To conclude, hecklers is thoroughly unmovable by truth or reason.
Bedlam
Based on hecklers's response to my previous letter, I believe it's safe to say that there's an insolent jackanape born every minute. It may help if I begin my discussion by relating an innocuous story in order to illustrate my point: A few days ago I was arguing with a particularly barbaric cretin who was insisting that everyone who doesn't share hecklers's beliefs is an oppressive, lackluster flake deserving of death and damnation. I tried to convince this baleful dork that hecklers's maudlin preoccupation with revanchism, usually sicklied over with such nonsense words as ''homeotransplantation'', would make sense if a person's honor were determined strictly by his or her ability to destroy the lives of good, honest people. As that's not the case, we can conclude only that it is not uncommon for hecklers to victimize the innocent, penalize the victim for making any effort to defend himself, and then paint the whole effete affair as some great benefit to humanity. I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that I frequently talk about how hecklers's hatchet jobs are way off base. I would drop the subject, except that the real question here is not, ''Why, in the name of all that is good and holy, does it want to destroy the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic study?''. The real question is rather, ''How can it be so Pecksniffian?'' I'll tell you the answer in a moment. But first, let me just say that if it makes fun of me or insults me, I hear it, and it hurts. But I take solace in the fact that I am still able to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic. To conclude, hecklers is thoroughly unmovable by truth or reason.
Bedlam