I'm with you 100 per cent nutty. Times change, values change. Foxhunting was simply not in question when the songs were written that Hawker's talking about. It would be absurd to condemn those who hunted 100-200 years ago, or to condemn their wonderful songs. (I'd draw the line at people writing songs now that glorified foxhunting.)

Aren't you being a bit disingenuous Kat? Slavery was always in question among those with consciences, and you surely appreciate that there is limited value in comparing the relative effects of singing songs about foxhunting and songs about "coons." Not my business, but I would have thought your own past involvement in hunting took a little explaining, assuming that your concern for animals is not just a recent fad.

Don't know why I don't just come straight to the point and say to hell with PC/EC, whatever you want to call it. *BG*