Inevitable, rarely is the pink
It's a bit harder than one might think
The person must be terrible with evil stink
He must be foul enough to make the devil blink
To troll and flame he must write with digital ink
Lower than the lowest he must sink
Then comes a moderator, stern and coy as a mink
They evaluate the troublesome lad; should he be banned or just thrown in the gauntlet's rink?
Ignorant or Intellectual, he can stay if not a fink
He just needs to avoid acting like a stupid dink
We've after all dealt with far worse who came to tink
than throw people out just because basic facts they couldn't link
It's a bit harder than one might think
The person must be terrible with evil stink
He must be foul enough to make the devil blink
To troll and flame he must write with digital ink
Lower than the lowest he must sink
Then comes a moderator, stern and coy as a mink
They evaluate the troublesome lad; should he be banned or just thrown in the gauntlet's rink?
Ignorant or Intellectual, he can stay if not a fink
He just needs to avoid acting like a stupid dink
We've after all dealt with far worse who came to tink
than throw people out just because basic facts they couldn't link
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
