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OPINION

The Prater's Creek Gazette

9th Issue Spring 2006 Page #4


Irving O. Tarbox Editor


 

Banjo

Editorial

Prater's Creek Mayor

When I first started this newspaper I was a young man, dropping out of college, dropping back in occasionally, and I had high ideals about being a newspaperman. I was going to print the truth. I would fight injustices, help right wrongs, and to call out the swindlers, the crooked, and the stupid and evil.

When all of the rioting started in Europe over the printing of cartoons depicting Allah, which seems to be a big no-no in the Muslim world, only a handful of newspapers had the stuff to reprint those cartoons. Almost all newspapers declined, saying that they were “sensitive” to the racial/religious feelings of their readers. Well, you know and I know they’re just plain scared. Scared of a terrorist attack on their offices or upon their writers and staff. Well, it makes me sick. Not that they won’t print it. But that this newspaper, this editor, me, Irving R. Tarbox, ain’t got the stuff anymore, the guts, to print them either. Scared! Scared that some raghead will firebomb our little office in Prater’s Creek. Afraid that we’ll be sitting in the Six Mile Café when a suicide bomber blows innocent bystanders and us up. That is what our office’s legal advisers have told us.

But I am happy to say that two little, off-campus, upstart papers, run by college students over in Clemson, SC, printed the cartoons in their papers. I just hope they don’t lose the stuff when they reach my age.


Letters To The Editor


Dear Gazette,

 I am an unemployed auto factory worker. My job moved to Mexico last year where a guy does my job for a twentieth of the hourly wage I made. I was sitting in the unemployment office yesterday, waiting for hours to be told I am never going to get a job that pays as well as the factory did. Well, I was sitting there reading a two day old newspaper that had been left behind and I saw an article about how the Mexican farmers are mad because they are getting run out of the chili pepper business by Chinese imported chili peppers. Hah! I left that office, cashed my last unemployment check at the bar, had a cold one and ate me a taco. Tasted real good.

Joe Grambowski

Flint, MI

USA


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