Betsy Newmark writes:
Youssef Ibrahim reports in the New York Sun that the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has denied trademark protection to a Saudi businessman for a business that carried the English word “Explorer” because it has the letter X in it. And X resembles the cross and so must be banned. The businessman wonders sarcastically if the next to go will be the plus sign.
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Scott Ott, call your office!
(Meanwhile, Jonah Goldberg ponders what will be banned next in a much closer region–Manhattan.)
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