Yes, Ebbie, I do believe that the Black civil rights, movement and ending legal discrimination by law was a good thing. But civil rights is not the PC I had in mind when I wrote last night. I'm thinking of things that make up the color and fabric of moment to moment living.

So, for instance, I deliberately wrote the Jew/Nazi joke (Jun 20) using stereotyping descriptors for the Jew. Some would call that joke racist and demeaning; some might find it funny; some both. In some places I might be tried by the legal system and fined for hate speech. Bicycle riders can be a touchy bunch.

One cannot, in many jurisdictions, as a police station or firehouse, put pictures on the wall or desk, of the opposite sex in scantily clad and/or provocative poses...even of one's own spouse. It is said they create a 'hostile work environment'.

In a county park near my house is the 80 or so year old mansion of the donor of the park; it is considered an historic site. Parties, art shows, tours of the home and other events used to be held there. The entire second floor became off limits to the public (and for all I know even those working there) because it is not accessible to certain handicapped (differently-abled) people.

While I am not with out sympathy for disabled folks--my own step father found walking extremely difficult because of childhood polio, while I am not unsympathetic to minorities--I am one, by religion, I don't accept the premise that the few should control the lives of the many.

My first job, out of college, was with the state Department of Employment (the Unemployment Office). One of the major criteria for determining eligibility for people who had quit a job, was 'whether or not a reasonable person acting under the same set of circumstances would have quit or had cause to quit.' That was not the exact wording, but close. Now it is all about 'me'--"I don't like, I can't do, I can't have, I am offended, so you have to accommodate me or I'll sue you." Terrific way to run a community!