[IAEP] Books Books Books

[Costello, Rob R]

So refreshing to have Albert trolling again - waiting for us to rise to
the bait

This form someone who proposed a doom version for the XO at one point

> -----Original Message-----
> From: iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:iaep-
> bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Albert Cahalan
> Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2009 4:54 AM
> To: Edward Cherlin; iaep
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Books Books Books
> 
> Edward Cherlin writes:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at
> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > There are supposed to be a Bible and a Qur'an for the XO. I know
where
> > the texts are for a dozen other religions, if anybody is interested
in
> > providing them.
> 
> Sugar is not restricted to mature audiences you know. It's for kids.
> 
> Both of those books are loaded with sex and violence. I really can't
> think of any books that are more violent, and I can only think of
> one book that has worse sexual perversion. Both of them even glorify
> genocide, war, and torture. Both have in fact been used to justify
> and encourage genocide, war, and torture.
> 
> > Students will need more than the bare texts. At least a dictionary
of
> > Elizabethan English, and preferably some of the books that
Shakespeare
> > himself read, such as Aristotle's Poetics, Plutarch's Lives, and
> > Holinshed's Chronicles.
> 
> Sugar for adults studying Libral Arts at an Ivy League school?
> 
> If you want harder reading material, try consumer contracts. :-(
> Those at least have extreme importance to people's lives.
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