It's all over. She's too smart.

[shereads]

Re: playing nice

Actually, us boys aren't doing so bad. I like amicus, I think he's a thoughtful, passionate person, I have a lot of respect for that. He cares, and that's a good thing.

The sentance you highlighted, I admit, was awkwardly constructed. It turned out more aggressive than I intended but , likethe good man he is, amicus let it pass and stuck to the topic.

See, i can be nice-nice.

But wait. There's more.

Amicus also gives a free set of Ginsu Knives if you buy the Inside-the-Egg Egg Scrambler.



This is going to be so much more fun to watch than it was to experience first-hand.

Tell him about universal human suffrage, Amicus! And Indians! And feminists!

 

[shereads]

Re: roots

Apologies to shereads if we've hijacked her thread. If we wronged you, Tie me up and whip me, girl, I can take it.

You are so brave.

For the record, you are welcome to discuss anything in any thread of mine that interests someone enough to answer you. I'm not quite clear on how hijacking works. It seems to me that an on-topic conversation among interested parties should be able to survive the introduction of off-topic posts by use of the scroll feature.

The same people who find hijacks upsetting also object when too many new threads are introduced, because the ones they like fall onto the second page.

One thing is the solution to the other. It's a toss-up. I've replied by "quoting" to a post that was two weeks and three topics ago, in the same thread, and received a prompt, on-topic reply. What doesn't interest me, I don't read. It's a non-issue.

 

[shereads]

That no one finds it astounding that our best and brightest, supposedly, those who are the educators of our young, march in virtual lock step with a humanist minority, is a puzzle to me.

But wouldn't that make them a humanist majority?





Amicus, I am proud of your civility toward my friend Subo. With a cautionary note: if you two propose a group hug and start singing, "We Are The World," I may lose my lunch.

Have fun, Smoove A. You are most fine.


P.S. Please don't tell Subo how you caught me planting phony "official documents." If Moscow finds out my cover is blown, I could lose my pension.

 

[Subo97]

Feminists

My dear friend, Cardinal Ratzenberger of the Vatican, just penned a missive on the danger of feminism to the modern family. Hopefully he never passes close to my other friend, shereads, without wearing a cast iron cup under his red robes. I didn't read the whole thing, I never read everything Ratzenberger writes, it's bad for my health, but some of it was quite interesting.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to say that I'm a practicing Roman Catholic. (we have to practice because nobody ever gets it right)

It had all the usual statements about women being the "brides" of the Church and how they should "know their place." Old Ratzie just cracks me up. The Vatican has a web site on which documents are often published. It might be there, I haven't looked. Amid all the mysogyny, however, there was a pearl of wisdom. It was a statement to the effect that those who have been abused by power do not especially help their own cause by the pursuit of power. It just gave me pause, although I generally believe in the concept of empowerment, at least in the political/economic sense.

 

[shereads]

Re: Feminists

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to say that I'm a practicing Roman Catholic. (we have to practice because nobody ever gets it right)

In other sports, steroids have seemed to help. They're bad for you in the long run, but they do boost performance. Just FYI.

I promise not to injure the Cardinal's privates, out of respect for your shared bond.

Amid all the mysogyny, however, there was a pearl of wisdom. It was a statement to the effect that those who have been abused by power do not especially help their own cause by the pursuit of power. It just gave me pause

It's making me pause, too. Most recently, I had a pause like this when Halle Berry complained that beauty makes her life more difficult.

 

[rgraham666]

Re: Feminists

Amid all the mysogyny, however, there was a pearl of wisdom. It was a statement to the effect that those who have been abused by power do not especially help their own cause by the pursuit of power.

The Taoists had a saying that applies to this, "What you resist, you become."

Neitszche (I can never spell his name right) said it more peotically.

Beware when you battle monsters,
lest you become a monster.
And as you gaze into the abyss,
the abyss gazes also,
into you