Oh, I agree, Stanley's got the absolute right to say anything he wants. But that doesn't mean that the magazine has a responsibility to print whatever bilious spewings he puts forward, and it genuinely would have been reason enough for me to want to disassociate myself from the magazine for having done so. But since I stopped writing for them (merely out of overextension, not due to any political stance), the point became moot. Anyway, if Stanley was indeed "fired," that would be the epitome of disingenuousness on the part of the magazine, and mind you, that was only an unsubstantiated rumor from another journalist. But cheap sensationalism does sell magazines and generate discussion. I'd be surprised if there weren't pages and pages of letters to the editor; I've already seen a few of them that were forwarded around by writers who feared that their views wouldn't be published. And Jazz Times is far from the only magazine that can be accused of such activity. Still, coming so soon after the furor that arose when the magazine printed an anti-homosexual letter (which used the word "faggots" in the heading, as I recall), it does point to a troubling lack of sensitivity. That, too, resulted in a number of barbed responses, including some serious outrage and organized protest from Gary Burton and others. But perhaps I'm just being too "P.C." for my own good... Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com