in a poistion; holy crapsticks

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>At what point in our history, I wonder, did the cultural expectation
>that any circumstance is most likely to be bad become entrenched in
>our very grammar?

Perhaps what is deleted is not "bad" but something else (which has
some reason to be deleted)? Maybe "shitty", or "f*cked-up", or ....

Hard to tell ... since it's been, uh, redacted. (^_^)

-- Doug Wilson


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