[Vision2020] Flashback

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries: 
Reading the hoax letter sent to UI employees this morning reminded  me of a  
similar stunt engineered by Doug Wilson and Doug Jones a few years  ago.  
"Rattle and Hum" (written by Doug Wilson for his church literary  magazine, 
Credenda Agenda) describes an April Fools Day joke they  engineered   aimed at 
humiliating the University of Idaho.   A link to the article is at the end of the 
essay. 
"By the time you receive this, our local police will probably have forgotten  
all about it, so a little bragging is now safe, and perhaps it is even in 
order.  But first some background. Our local city council, through a series of  
ridiculous circumstances, decided to quit restricting female toplessness. The  
noble senior editor of this journal, encouraged by some winks and nudges from  
me, not that he needed any, made up a flyer which announced a topless and 
proud  lecture series by topless feminist scholars. The titles of the talks were 
the  typical postmodern hoohah-"Topless Shadows: A Personal Narrative,"  
"Destabilizing the Topless/Bottomless Duality," "Breasts as Embodied  Intuitions," 
you get the drift. Some of our stalwart young Christian men,  majoring in 
Christian culture and skylarking, papered the university with these  flyers, and 
the next morning a bunch of them were faxed all over campus. Now you  know that 
we live in sad days, days when satire is increasingly difficult, and  almost 
impossible. The radio station announced the lectures all day, an  instructor 
out of the women's center announced the lectures to a class, and the  English 
department (listed on the flyer as sponsor) called the announced  location to 
find out if they were in fact going on.  
Well, some authorities at the University of Idaho went sideways, and had the  
cops out looking for the culprits. When they demanded to see the film from 
the  security cameras at Kinko's (whence the faxes had been sent), our noble 
editor  contacted the established authorities (Rom. 13), who told him it wasn't 
funny.  He responded that on the contrary it was, and the next day gave out a 
press  release on how the university was trying to repress the true, the good 
and the  lovely.  
Needless to say, lots of people showed up for the non-event, and all this  
happened on April 1. All in all, it was a bad day for the tight-lipped  
fundamentalists of the left. " 
_http://credenda.org/issues/11-3meander.php_ 
(http://credenda.org/issues/11-3meander.php)  
I have wondered for a long time how Jones/Wilson filched the UI  letterhead 
used for the flyer.  It seems likely that the letterhead was  secured by a UI 
insider. Care to do a little sleuthing, Dale?  (I  know, I know, that challenge 
will go unanswered.)   Who in the  world would admit to being such an 
adolescent jackass - especially  if the thief was a UI employee at the time?  
Nonetheless, it is  my hope that Doug Wilson will consider  the following text for 
next Sunday's sermon. "Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that  
repeats his folly."  Proverbs 26:11   
Rose Huskey
Who speaks for the chickens,  people?  Who?  

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