Timothy C. May writes:
Grumpiness warning: I have held my tongue the past few months as all of these "this t-shirt has been declared a munition!!!" messages went out, but I can hold my tongue no longer. [...]
It was this series of posts about whether wearing the "munitions t-shirt" near schools was a crime or not that made me think the silly season had arrived. If the t-shirt is a munition, and books are munitions, then libraries must be real "ammunition dumps," ready to explode at any minute.
"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries." - Chistopher Morley, _The Haunted Bookshop_ Res ipsa loquitor. -- http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm ...with that fresh new lemon scent Don't mess with someone unless they mess with you first. .o. "Creating and distributing neurolinguistic viruses since 1969"