Reply #10: The Idiocy of the Bush Administration has no bottom.

[Quasimodem]

RK Rowling’s Harry Potter books do no more to promote witchcraft than the children’s books of L. Frank Baum, Edith Nesbit, or C. S. Lewis.

What they do — through a seven-book series — is to repeatedly point out the lesson that neither a person’s background, nor his abilities, nor his opportunities indicate the measure of that person. Rather, starting from that background, it is the choices that he makes with those abilities and opportunities.

I certainly can see why people such as those in the Bush Administration, who have made such abysmal choices with their talents and opportunities, might greet so enlightened a message with more than a little animosity.