Dear Bazz,

No! Not just the Irish old chap.
But the "Christian Brothers Irish".
And as for being Christian that's
highly debatable.

Touche !

Dear Bazz,

On the subject of "political correctness,"
this one's for you:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokepcredridinghood.htm

Politically Correct Little Red Riding Hood, Lexi?

My ars... pert little behind... it was. Surely not, when the only perpetrated violence in the story was by males!

{Great to hear from you as always, though}

usually it is only those affected and living in high crime areas that face the simple fact that some people groups are far more violent than others. Look at the use of Police Resources in Regions in WA and only the willfully ignorant will deny a violence culture among certain groups (usually not white males). The mantra of spending more on education reducing this problem has proven to be a myth.

runner,

Do ya think violence and "that sort of thing" might be connected to socio-economic circumstances - social dislocation and various other related phenomena...or do ya think some people (usually not "white" males) are just inherently "like that"?

It seems to me that white males in a general sense are just as warlike as other races in the universal scheme of things. They beat their chests in exactly the same fashion...(funnily enough, whenever I'm close enough to note the driver of the car hooning and squealing its tyres in a particular chest-beating way - it's always a white male driving)

I'm surmising that white (middle-class) males in a predominantly white and fortunate society would find little reason to upset the apple cart and not toe the line...maybe we could do with a little more equity in our society?