[PEN-L:9490] Re: Re: RE: cut the crap. NOW!

[Stephen E Philion <philion@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad,
What are you some kind of missionary or something? I mean, what's the
point, just how much of the US left  misses Stalin or Pol Pot anyhow?

Steve

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Brad De Long wrote:

> >
> >Why my dear fellow.  I have no desire to participate in
> >this unseemly brouhaha of brutish, ill-mannered badinage.
> >I prefer to reserve my pasquinades for the ears of the
> >cultivated.  Better to contemplate the supernal oneness,
> >the music of the spheres, the lives of the saints.
> >Or last nite's broadcast of the thrilling sequel,
> >Predator II.
> >
> >[sniff]
> >
> >Max B. Sawicky, Doctor of Philosophy
> >Economic Policy Institute
>
>
> My dear fellow, how do you manage to restrain your urge for vigorous,
> competitive disputation? To educate those poor benighted stooges out
> there, as they stagger, lost, in hopeless and hapless search for
> their missing Stalin? To teach them the error of their ways? To
> convince them through the light of reason and argument that Pol Pot
> was really not the kind of fellow you would like to have choosing the
> wine for your society's annual dinner? To remind them that the fact
> that Galtieri threw people out of airplanes is not a reason to
> applaud when Li Peng crushes people under tanks?
>
> I am lost in admiration, I tell you...
>
> [sniff] [sniff]
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>
>