UPDATE (July 11, 2008) I have followed up on this issue with another post. Turns out my opinions in the post below were right in the first place, so you can mentally remove the strike-throughs.
I try to be sensitive to other peoples' feelings, when it's called for. However, some people also seem all-too-ready to be offended. Take the case of two Dallas County commissioners. One of them commented that so much paperwork had been lost in an office that it had become a "black hole". Another commissioner took great offense at this, and said it was more like a "white hole". Then a judge demanded that the first commissioner apologize for his "racially insensitive" remark. The first commissioner is white, the second two men are black. I have news for the two men who were offended by this remark. [Note: I may have been too hasty to include the ...
