What better example that the human race functions out of a child state, everybody, including the media. Ooo, I'm telling, daddy said a bad word. Likewise the article that Carol posted about Israeli candor is also evidence that people (not Israelis, people) simply enjoy war. There is no other way to explain the tens of thousands of wars, many of them extremely bloody, since history began. The world is just a big school yard, a real life Lord of the Flies, only with no adults in sight. Ooo, I'm telling, daddy said a bad word ... ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Stone To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 7/18/2006 11:15:16 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: absurdities At 01:51 PM 7/17/2006, you wrote: The current Top Leading Headline Story on the CNN website front page at this moment is, I kid you not, that Bush used the "s****" word in an informal conversation with Blair and it was picked up by a microphone. What is even more priceless is that whoever wrote the story felt the need to tell us that "his remarks were unscripted". p