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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Batang"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> Visionaries:</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>"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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. "</P>
<P><A
href="http://credenda.org/issues/11-3meander.php">http://credenda.org/issues/11-3meander.php</A></P>
<P>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<FONT lang=0 PTSIZE="12" FAMILY="SERIF"> Doug Wilson will consider
the following text for next Sunday's sermon. </FONT><FONT lang=0
PTSIZE="12" FAMILY="SERIF">"Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that
repeats his folly." </FONT><FONT lang=0 PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SERIF">Proverbs 26:11 </FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 PTSIZE="12" FAMILY="SERIF">Rose Huskey</FONT><FONT lang=0
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color=#000000 PTSIZE="12" FAMILY="SERIF">Who speaks for the chickens,
people? Who? </FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
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