[Vision2020] love letters or a desperate cry for attention?

[Andreas Schou]

Joe --

No real criticism here, but: do you remember your attacks on No Weatherman?
Just saying: the reason this sort of thing has two sides is that neither is
required to police their own hypocrisy.

-- ACS

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>wrote:

> Gary: Do you forget your defence of No Whetherman (hah, hah)? I think it
> was, Names don't matter, arguments do!
>
> Joe Campbell
>
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 5:46 PM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
>  My Dearest Bertha,
>
> I get that you aren't interested in contributing to the discussion.
>
> I get that you are not swayed by my suave good looks and worldly charm.
>
> I get that my powerful intellect and rapier wit bounce off you seemingly
> unnoticed.
>
> In fact, I am coming to believe that you imagine you don't really care for
> me at all. (wink, wink)
>
> All of these things I can understand.
>
> What I can't understand is why you are frightened of me.
>
> The waifish Ms. Lund delights in spitting in my eye.
>
> The diminutive Ms. Mix gleefully reads me the riot act.
>
> The delicate Ms. Hovey never hesitates to point out my failings as she sees
> them.
>
> And all of them do it over their very own real life names.
>
> What could I have done to scare you into hiding?
>
> Many of my most vocal critics on this forum have actually spoken with me
> face to face and emerged none the worse for wear.
>
> What could I have done to cause you to cower so?
>
> What horror could I have inflicted on you that leaves you with no recourse
> but to hurl pitifully weak epithets from the safe harbor of anonymity?
>
> Or could it be that you simply yearn to be noticed?
>
>
> g
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Gray Tree Crab aka Big Bertha<gray.treecrab.aka.big.bertha at gmail.com>
> *To:* <vision2020 at moscow.com>vision2020 at moscow.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:17 AM
> *Subject:* [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram
>
> The village locksmith said:
>
>
> "My goodness isn't the nascent little ambulance chaser cute when he gets
> all up on his hind legs and brays about how others should be ashamed?
>
> The reason that I don't "defend torture" is because that  I see no
> compelling need to. As I've said before, I do not believe that waterboarding
> is torture, I do not believe that the previous administration had a policy
> promoting the use of torture, and  I don't think that your pretending to be
> the arbiter of all that is righteous, pure and holy necessitates my
> responding to every idle quack and query that's directed my way.
>
> Now how's about you knock it off with the phony shame routine and save it
> for closing arguments in kiddy court alright?"
>
>
> Before anyone criticizes the lonely locksmith over this only apparently
> puerile outburst, they need to understand the pressure he is under.
>
> His business is so busy that he is constantly on edge.  In fact, it is so
> busy that he may have to expand into the next door laundromat.  As one of
> the area's leading entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial philosophers, he is to
> be cheered for his daring and incisive business acumen in these hard times.
>
> He is our leader.  Cut him some slack if he seems irrational and childish.
> He is going where few dare to go.
>
>
>
> --
> Gray Tree Crab aka "Big Bertha"
>
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