Yes, Gary, I was comparing Newton and Einstein to "indian dances," philosophy, medicine, folktales, song and music, painting, craftsmanship, etc. On the PC front, my sense is that the word has become a buzz word which is indiscriminately applied to a range of different issues effecting our campuses today: a)hate speech acts, which I personally oppose, as a long-time ACLU supporter; b)affirmative action policies; c)attempts to broaden the curiculum through multi-cultural education; d) attempts to become more sensative in our use of potentially offensive language; e)new awareness of issues of sexual harrassment; f)theoretical commitments steming from Marxist perspectives, etc. The right wing, which, as a former political scientist I see as a descriptive term, has sought to link all of these issues together in the popular imagination, so that attempts to broaden the curiculum to respect a more diversified heritage are linked to censorship, while the right conducts its efforts to restrict the broadening of the curiculum in the name of free speech. I do find something Orwellian about these linkages and so far, I see at least as much horrors being conducted in the name of erradicating PC from campus as I see in the name of perpetuating PC. I see the word PC used in reviews of films like Terminator 2, for example, which merely attempts to include strong female characters, a rare enough occurance in Hollywood films that I seriously doubt that it will pose much of a threat to anyone's free speech. :-) I see students who are afraid to express any political view for fear of being labeled PC. I see the term automatically applied to any position expressed which is left as center. I personally receive threatening mail from conservative groups eager to protect My free speech. I teach in a department where personal differences between senior faculty members gets hauled into court under the name of stopping "PC." With one or two exceptions, there are not any departments that are actually dominated by "tenured radicals." I could name a large number which are headed by "old farts" who want to teach only the works of dead white men. So, yes, I find attacks on "PC" tiresome and reactionary, unless the person involved is prepared to specify exactly what they mean by PC and what positions, actions, beliefs, they are opposing. I don't want to be put in a position where I have to defend Hate SPeech acts or preferential hiring just because I support feminism and multiculturalism. I see no one who is making "PC" attacks on Gary and Ernie; they raised the issue, but I also don't want to remain silent in the name of group harmony while they continue to snipe about this divisive issue. Henry Jenkins