The most blatant example of that is, of course, how the Nazis took over a perfectly good Hindu good-luck sign!!!

Dear Jude: True, but I still don't think we should let hoodlums take over the hooded sweatshirt.

As for hooded sweatshirts, the appeal is always to the lowest common denominator, i.e. baggy pants, dyed/spiked hair, EXCESSIVE tattoos, body piercings, Gothic look, etc. Dear Bill: All of these look tacky and hoody by definition. The hooded sweatshirt is a perfectly reasonable garment. My mother, of blessed memory, had one, I believe. If we let hoodlums take over the hooded sweatshirt, the way pimps took over the hat, what will be the next reasonable garment they take over? The hooded pullover? I have three BEAUTIFUL hooded pullovers. I won't dare wear them.

All great answers.

Dear Dr. Sowell: Bless your heart, and your head, AGAIN. What would we do without you? Most conservative columnists and bloggers have pre-supposed Zimmerman's INNOCENCE. By the way, this is sometimes unavoidable, but why let creeps take over a reasonable garment? PIMPS took over the fedora to the point where, for decades, some nightclubs have banned HATS. Why let thugs take over such a reasonable garment as a hooded sweatshirt?

Does anyone besides me remember the Norman Rockwell painting "Off to College," the farmer father and his son at the train station? The father in his old jeans, the son proud and happy in his brand new suit? Would he have been so happy if he had known what he was going to?

CORRECTION: Q.E.D., those professors can't stand the thought that there's any person on the planet with the slightest sympathy for them.

Dear Steve: I was referring to college professors who help to spread the "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep" propaganda described by Mr. Prager. I know plenty who don't.

(Continued)children can't stand the thought that there's any person on the planet with the slightest sympathy for Jews who want to stay alive. Since Anne Frank and her family, may the Al-mighty avenge their blood, were Jews who wanted to stay alive, Q.E.D., those professors can't stand the thought that there's any person on the planet with th slightest sympathy for them. Incidentally, if the U.S. is no better than any other country, why do these college professors live there? If the history of Christianity is largely a history of Inquisitions and Islam is a religion of peace, why don't they go and live in Saudi Arabia?

With the exception of brainwashed, 18 year old dimwits, victims of groupthink and the biased education Mr. Prager describes, I don't think there's anybody alive stupid enough to think Israel is an apartheid country. The Arabs in Israel enjoy full civil rights and equality. People call Israel an apartheid country out of projection, because they want to ban and ostracize Jews. I think that the fact that so many people, who know better, call Israel Israel an apartheid country proves what I've been saying for decades: many people are faking when they pretend to be moved by Anne Frank, may the al-mighty avenge her blood. Such people have no sympathy for Jews who want to stay alive-these college professors who use their positions to brainwash...