March 10, 2003 -- Most of you know what a 'sig' is, but for the uninitiated; it's a ‘canned’ message or information that’s automatically attached to the end of an e-mail. This morning while perusing a mailing list, I came across a someone’s sig that informed me: Politically correct speech is just government censorship. I mumbled back at my computer screen, "Political correctness is a straw man that blowhard reactionaries attack in lieu of reasonable refutations of sensible arguments for progress." I am tired of people who set themselves up as the heroic opponents of the vague adversary that is...