[Vision2020] Stop . . . in the name of megalomania

[Joan Opyr]

Doug Jones writes:

>Good try, Rose, but it's never been about slavery or Doug Wilson. Those are 
>just convenient little >slots for those who try to hide their hatred for 
>the historic Christian gospel. Just be honest. The >booklet and all the 
>disputants in this discussion will be forgotten in under forty years, but 
>the basic >controversy will keep going for millennia. A little secular 
>self-consciousness would be a grand help >to civility.

Rubbish.  What it's about, if you'll excuse my secular incivility, is 
getting one's ass in a sling.  First the pamphlet, then the discussion, and 
now these hectoring newspaper ads -- like a geeky teenager who fantasizes 
about taking Lara Croft to the prom, you're giving off the distinct whiff of 
desperation.

Rather than indulge Doug in yet another round of free publicity, I suggest 
that the good citizens of Moscow skip this "town" meeting and adjourn 
instead to the Coeur d'Alene Brewing Company (or any other ale house of 
their choice) for pints of beer and platters of hot wings.  Moscow is about 
more than Doug and his neo-Confederate pals, but we've allowed him to shine 
the community spotlight on himself as if we were all pop-eyed evangelists 
with delusions of grandeur.  If we want a new center of attention, then we 
should turn our attention elsewhere.  The fruit of the hop vine.  The wing 
of the buffalo.  Doesn't that sound nicer than the festival of hot air?

Cheers, or rather, bottoms up,

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment

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