[conspire] Book Burning continues thanks to the Feds
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Mar 24 20:45:11 PDT 2011
Er, maybe I shouldn't hang the proverbial lampshade on it, but I now
find myself impelled to apologise for being inadvertently rude. (Mom
always says: 'A gentleman is never rude accidentally.')
I wrote:
> I hesitate to suggest promoting 'free culture' licensing ideas to the
> dossim, as they're probably way ahead of me on that. (You tell me.
> I'm just the blond gentile agnostic guy with the Lutheran ancestors. ;-> )
_As_ that blond gentile agnostic guy with the Lutheran ancestors, I
suppose I could claim cluelessness, but honesty impels me to admit I
knew in the back of my mind that 'dossim' is pejorative slang
(Yiddish-accented Hebrew for 'religious'), but forgot.[1] Sorry.
I should have said (or meant to say) 'Haredim'.
[1] Whereas, 'DOS sim' is something wholly different. For the perplexed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredi_Judaism
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