Re: Borders up for sale?

"Gene Ward Smith" <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:Xns9A67A1954D9ECgenewardsmithsbcglob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley screwed me over in a different
way.
> They had a sign up with a big explanation for why they didn't, for
social-
> poltical reasons, carry Gor books. This, of course, obligated me to read
> the first Gor book, which turned out to be crap on cardboard. Why
couldn't
> they have not carried Gor because it was crap?

Apparently they were so offended they felt the need to defend tender minds

from stumbling accidentally over it elsewhere.

 Of course such attitudes often run into the contrarian like yourself -
and 
myself.  But I'll take your word for it that it is crap.

 Or perhaps they received so many requests they got tired of explaining
why 
they felt the sociological need to to make a political stand in writing?