Sam, of explodingdog, drew something that perfectly expresses the nature of the Good, at least. _
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12:53:49 AM, Friday 29 June 2001

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When we designed the judicial system in the U.S., we didn't promise that corruption would be impossible. All we did was guarantee that there would be as many chances as possible to reverse a bad decision, and that the worst the courts could do would be to fail to act.

(I should probably expand on that a bit. Oh well.) _
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11:56:48 PM, Thursday 28 June 2001

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The phrase "politically correct" can be used to express basically three different messages:
1. "I'm about to say something that most people will recognize as obviously wrong, but instead, I want you to think of it as daring, radical, and original."
2. "Somebody objected to my rudeness, and I want you to view that as an attempt to stifle freedom of speech and pollute the clarity of the language."
3. "This person's acting like a humorless asshole, but instead of calling them on it, I'm going to insinuate that they're actually trying to push forward some diabolical political agenda."

It has an additional use academia, namely to insinuate that the horrors hinted at above are all the fault of things like reader response criticism and deconstruction. _
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