I don't believe in censorship but...

One last instruction to close this section: Do not violate Lott’s twelfth rule of English Usage. For the uninitiated, it is the rule that states, “Given the formulation A – but –B, where B makes A irrelevant, A shall be deleted.”

So, when protesting Maralyn Manson music, the following sentence could NOT be used, “I don’t believe in censorship but that stupid little prick of a transgendered freak should have all his CD’s recalled and melted down, be strapped to a chair and forced to ingest all that filthy gosh-awful garbage while the music of a Real band –Queen—bids him bon voyage.”

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