> > I double-majored in English and Religion in college, and completed a Master of Divinity degree in May this year. I'm intensely interested in the task of doing ethics in the modern (or post-modern, or whatever) social and intellectual climate. That's probably why I automatically latched onto Diane's little opinion piece about the microwave oven, although she probably didn't intend for it to be taken quite so seriously. :-)
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> Congratulations on your degree!
> I believe you are correct - she probably had no idea what chaos that innocent little letter would cause. :-}
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> dkd1

Well, it was meant seriously... but I didn't think it'd be this popular. It is heartening, though, to see that this nation hasn't completely devolved into Spice Girl-listening, loose-jean-down-to-your-knees wearing, so-historically-illiterate-they-didn't-know-the-ending-to-Titanic goobers.

Di "You like me... you REALLY like me..." ane