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Toronto, 2003.09.13

It seems that Lee Salem, an apparatchik at Universal Press Syndicate, couldn't be brought to spell out the word 'masterbate' in a recent UPS fatwa against a recent Doonesbury strip, and went with 'm-word'. As something of a 'frequent flyer' of masturbation, I can only hope that Lee overcomes this hang-up. Because writing 'masturbate' is almost as easy as doing it, if you can only loosen up.

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Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke