“I was strolling past some Korean shops in Chinatown when I overheard members of a Cambodian mafia having a powwow. One of these heathens had welshed on a deal to buy a ghetto blaster and was shanghaied off to the Near East. As if that weren’t hurtful enough, it was Dutch treat all the way.” Dennis Dutton (From a cautionary review of a book that “threatens the quality and honesty of academic writing in the United States.”)
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