One Thanksgiving, my dad and the Uncles, including Johnny, were drinking and tal

king after dinner. For some reason my dad shared the Martin Niemoller quote aime
d at the German intellectuals in Hitler's Germany. It begins "First they came fo
r the Communists" and ends "and then they came for me." Johnny lit up.
"That's it," he said, "You have to stop the assholes early! If you let them win
once they find they like it. Then the whole neighborhood turns to sh*t."
Posted by: Wally Bock | December 13, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Richard
This is really interesting material, as always, but I do always wish in the more
"formal' literature for a recognition that in English an "asshole" as opposed t
o an "arsehole" is somewhere you keep your donkey...
Posted by: Richard | December 13, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Randy
The terms used must now be preceded by "alleged" to protect rights, unless the "
perp" is self-identifying.
Glad I haven't lived in an area (yet) where policemen are thought of (and may ev
en ac