[Eric]

On the general issue of political correctness, I came across this quote in Lewis Lapham's collection of essays, "Waiting for the Barbarians." In his essay, "In the Garden of Tabloid Delight", as part of his conclusion, he comments: "Absent a unified field of moral law that commands a sufficiently large number of people to obedience and belief, with what else do we fill in the blanks except a lot of little rules - rules about how to address persons of differing colors or sexual orientation, about when to wear fur and when not to eat grapes, about what to read or where to smoke." Though his prose tends to be academic rather than clear, I think he is making a good point.