Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: uban Genetic Engineering(was Jesse Lemisch)

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark, please be careful about personalizing all of this.

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:12:47PM +0100, Mark Jones wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > Hanson sees mass death; apparently Mark Jones
> > does too, but he's coy on the details.
>
> You keep repeating this canard, but I'm working on the assumption that
> people on this list have enough brains not to take any notice, so I won't
> either.
>
> You know, Doug, your glassy-eyed optimism about the American way of life and
> your evident anger when it's questioned strikes an odd note. You leave the
> impression that you what you really want to do is to accuse people like me
> of being un-American. When I was ill with cancer I joined an oncology elist
> where the other poor souls, fellow-sufferers of mine, who were mostly
> American, were constantly anguishing about not only the course of thier
> illness, but the fact that they'd just been made homeless, lost their jobs,
> couldn't pay for vital prescription drugs, etc. When I described my own
> situation-- free medical care on the NHS etc-- I was promptly accused by one
> poor chap -- who was even more in extremis than me -- of being
> anti-American. There was something of bathos, something tragicomic about
> this. Probably this chap's bout of patriotism took him as much by surprise
> as it did me. I have the same feeling about you, sometimes. Stephen Philion
> keeps reassuring me that you *are* a leftist. No doubt it is true, but I
> think there is still the old, old Republican Henwood struggling for air
> inside you somewhere.
>
> Mark Jones
>

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Michael Perelman
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