[Vision2020] name calling

[g. crabtree]

A noted fan of the clever ad hominem and famous author of blistering soft-core and the best you can do is stinkyweaseltits? Wow, that's weak, really weak.

Disappointedly,
G. Crabtree----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joan Opyr 
  To: Vision2020 Moscow 
  Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] name calling


  On 15 Dec 2005, at 20:22, keely emerinemix wrote:


    Not that you care what I think, Crabtree, but "simpering douche bag," "lower order reeking weasel" and your other "fun" comments are beyond the pale. I don't care who you are, how old you are, if you're religious or not -- this doesn't edify anyone and it makes you look like a real ass.

    Which, I'm pretty sure, isn't your intent. If it is, though, you can go to bed tonight knowing you succeeded. Still, I hope that when you wake up tomorrow, you do so with resolve to try to engage with other people on a slightly higher level than you do now. I know many of us would be grateful.

    keely



  Amen, Keely. Amen. You are absolutely right.

  Before I am doused with lighter fluid and set ablaze for my seeming hypocrisy, I will freely admit that I am a noted fan of the clever ad hominem. As a type of polemic, the ad hominem is often dismissed as either fallacious or invalid; it is neither. It's simply not logical. It can, however, be amusing. Unfortunately for Mr. Crabtree, his attempts along these lines are not funny; they are an offense to God, nature, and Tallulah Bankhead. (Now there's someone who knew how to do ad hominem.) 

  My partner, Melynda, was recently the lucky recipient of the sobriquet "socialist ass hat." Frankly, I'm jealous. What's an ass hat? I'm picturing a derriere derby, a commie chapeau, a Fabian fedora. What I'm not picturing is Stinky Weasletits, the man who can always find a parking spot downtown, having the wit to come up with anything half so amusing as socialist ass hat.

  Time, Mr. Crabtree, to return to your day job. Take a key and lock up your lips.

  Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
  www.joanopyr.com




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