Posted 9:15 AM by Gene

This remarkable article (remarkable for having run in the LALATIMES -- and for having RUN AT ALL) and Mr. Pipes's blast of the BRITS have something in common: they point to an unwillingness to tackle menaces in society for no better reason than that we may HURT somebody. [C]RAPPERS are "cockroaches." There's an analogy! Okay, so how do we take care of cockroaches? With LITERACY. So we educate ourselves in cockroaches, know the various breeds, how they procreate, how many baby cockroaches they breed, where they live, where they eat, where they go to the toilet, how often they go to the toilet, how they spread diseases by going to the toilet, maybe we even begin to try to UNDERSTAND them -- and meantime while we're busy doing all this LITERACY our living space CRAWLS WITH COCKROACHES. The Brits did the same thing with THEIRS, and look what it got them -- 55 dead in London. So long as we take the attitude that we should confront evil with the equivalent of homeopathy, administered in a spirit of abject apology, we can expect the inevitable "PAYBACK."