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In my long life I have lived through many irritating trends in human affairs but none have earned my contempt as much as the movement known as Political Correctness. This is mostly the invention of liberals who want to censor other people without being accused of censorship.  A few years ago, some starry-eyed professor at the University of Missouri put out a thick book of words and phrases that he decided were offensive to somebody. By the time millions of Americans got through laughing at this idiocy, a lot of the bad words in the professor's silly book had become acceptable and many previously-good words had become bad, according to other humorless liberals. Today, a politically correct dictionary would have to be updated every morning. I wasn't a bit surprised that somebody recently objected to my reference to my fellow Irish-English Americans as Micks and Limeys. After writing a humor column for nearly 30 years, what really surprises me is that it has taken this long...
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