Further to the above, I recently came across an issue of Tom Sawyer (a new edition) at the bookstore, and leafed through it for some old memories. Lo and behold, it was identical to the original (I think...) except that they had completely edited out the chapter (or the scenes) where Tom gets in a fight with another boy, a new kid who has arrived in town.

Apparently, someone decided that a scene like that was unacceptable in today's officially nonviolent world.

It's unbelievable and pathetic that someone would do that.

After all, you can buy any number of shooting games at the computer store in which you can assasinate hundreds of hapless opponents with a variety of weapons ranging from small pistols to lasers to bazookas.

And meanwhile they edit out a scuffle between 2 school kids from a classic book written in the 1800's...

I also note that the occasional and utterly hilarious physical scuffles between Dagwood Bumstead and his neighbour Herb, or his boss Mr. Dithers, or the postman...have been scrupulously removed from the comic Blondie, no doubt due to lobbying by some other group of misguided assholes who want to protect us all from some imagined threat to our collective state of mind...

I believe that's the kind of nonsense that started this thread off in the first place.

I would bloody well like to see Dagwood and Herb go rolling all over the yard one more time, over a borrowed rake or some such nonsense. It's just a comic, for Christ's sake!

ARRRGGGG! My rant for today. It's no wonder we have a lot of road rage out there these days, considering the level of denial that a lot of people are in.

- LH