Madness

Reader comment on item: [Hamid Dabashi:] Columbia University's Hysterical Professor

Submitted by Paul Jackson (United Kingdom), Jan 31, 2005 at 05:15

Political correctness is MAD!

A magistrate who, when considering a publican's request for an extra hour's drinking, ruled that St George's Day was not ‘a special occasion' – even though the publican had not encountered any such problem with a similar request for the Chinese Year of the Goat.

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