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THERE HE GOES AGAIN br> Re: Jay D. Homnick's Throwing the Book : /p>

Jay Homnick writes: "This all strikes me as a perfect example of what the Talmud calls: 'He came to teach about others and ended up revealing about himself.' A person of decency does not publish personal attacks against a family where no social or political purpose is achieved. Nor does he treat the office of the Presidency so dismissively. The political debate deserves better, as does our literary culture. Even the Yiddish words chosen are of the lowest caliber, used only by people who have no breeding. Indeed this pretense at education is a base exercise: class is dismissed."

p>Are you willing to impose the same standards on the Right, Mr. Homnick? br> -- Mike Roush /p>

I wish to express my appreciation for Mr. Jay D. Homnick's well-executed evisceration of the so-called "humor book" of the above title. It left me, too, spitting and fuming and nearly incoherent with indignation and outrage.

p>My only criticism is that Mr. Homnick was perhaps a bit too lenient. Nonetheless, it was good of him to defend President Bush from the inappropriate attacks of this "book" and, in so doing, to remind us all of what a person of decency does and what our literary culture deserves. br> -- Renee Willis /p>

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