From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 18:32:11 MDT
In a message dated 7/28/02 23:01:20, mail@HarveyNewstrom.com writes:
>Hmmm... Nobody responded to my post. Nobody retracted their
>statements. Nobody said, "Oh you're right, I'll change."
>How was I *not* ignored? I couldn't find any evidence that my posting
>had any effect. Can you point to something I missed?
People rarely bother to post retractions of off-the-cuff remarks like that.
Ego, procrastination, whatever; like it or not that's how people are.
>More postings continued to
>blame the "leftists" after my posting, prompting Damien to make the same
>observation again.
I didn't see that, really. You do understand how the vagueness of "leftists"
results in it being common, albeit nearly meaningless, invective, right?
Coastal dwellers in New England are mostly "leftist" by USA
standards, so *that* claim is probably technically true.
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