[PEN-L:30244] Re: Re: RE: Re: Reply to Marc Cooper

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> Maybe that is why he pisses me off.  He does sometimes do interesting
> journalism, but on some issues he is so far off that he gets my anger up.
> Very few people can do that to me.
>

Cooper belongs to the category of those (whether left or right in
sympathies) who like to pretend that they are "above the struggle." I am
beginning to call it the "Oldest Cousin Syndrome," after some of my own
remembered attitudes from about 10 to 14. There were many cousins on my
father's side of the family, and I (the oldest) can remember trying both
to be "one" of them and to be "more adult." That attitude utterly
suppresses any other virtues or vices a write might have.

It is also silly to argue with the likes of him. Ignoring him is best.

Carrol