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Re: Begging [was: Cockburn on Hitchens (priceless)]



In a message dated 10/11/06 9:08:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lancemurdoch@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I recall watching a Fred Friendly seminar where Willard Gaylin said he
never gave money to bums, which he said was the "last vestige
remaining of my red-diapered Marxist upbringing".


Of course there was Harpo, when asked for 2 bits for a cup of coffee by a panhandler,  opening his white trench coat to give a panhandler a piping hot cup of the black brew.

Brian


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