September 6, 2004

Let's apply tolerance to the pocketbook

By Selwyn Duke
One day when I was just a wee lad, I and the rest of my grade school class received some very sage advice about how to balance our rights against those of our fellow man.  Our teacher stood with arms outstretched and said, 'You have a right to hold out your arms like this and spin around as much as you want, but your right to do that ends where someone else's nose begins.'    This self—evident truth is not something that any of us would dispute.  But nevertheless, there are those among us who are perfectly willing to bop others in the schnoz just so they can spin to their heart's content.   What am I talking about?  Well, this is a very big country and many of its denizens embrace some very bizarre behaviors, activities and ideas — as they say on that old TV show, 'There are eight million stories in the naked city.'  But we Americans are a very tolerant people in many ways, so we tend to not care about what you do on your own time...(Read Full Article)