to rape

[Jonathan Lighter]

And so many of them are headed this way.

JL


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > What's creepy is that he doesn't say, "I wouldn't call it 'rape.' I'd
> call
> > it 'shock' or 'outrage.'"
> >
> > Instead he blandly acknowledges exercising a sadistic, sexually violent
> > power over his audience "for their own good."
> >
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> "The world is full of assholes."
> - Edward Turkington, 1960
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