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I kinda agree with Kenneth, and I kinda demur from the reigning assumption. I'd rather have our military leaders of the future reading poetry than not reading poetry, and I really liked the original NY Times article. Kenneth Wolman wrote: > Something curious to this thread. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the > assumption behind thread has never been defined. One can only assume > what we are expected to assume? > > The reigning assumption du jour seems to be that apes should receive > their allotment of bananas and not allowed near typewriters lest they > accept the risk of one day writing Hamlet. Therefore, to give a poem > to a military cadet is a great disturbance in the Force, y'might > say--an insult to the order of things in which all soldiers are morons > and all poets are men and women of the highest moral standing. > > KW > -- Tad Richards http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ http://opusforty.blogspot.com/