LM leaving list for a while/China's socialist path
From: John Gulick
JG sez:
I wince at the suggestion that I'm in the same league
On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:03 PM, ravi wrote:
Doug questioned the guys credibility by
calling Fox News polemical genius and other such stuff
They are geniuses of polemic. That's a completely noncontroversial
statement. I'm almost embarrassed by the obviousness of it, in fact.
Let me relieve your
LM leaving list for a while/China's socialist path
On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:03 PM, ravi wrote:
Doug questioned the guys credibility by
calling Fox News polemical genius and other such stuff
They are geniuses of polemic. That's a completely noncontroversial
statement. I'm almost embarrassed by
I have a few words for Doug, Louis, and you too John...
Simple-minded Vicious Assholes.
Simple-minded? No, in fact I was set off (and I suspect
so too were Doug and Louis, but I'm not their mouthpiece)
by Eric's consistently demonstrated simple-mindedness,
his repeated insistence that one can
Leigh has left the list. I mentioned that I thought that Lou's first comment
was a
bit too harsh.
I would have hoped that we could have learned something from Eric; that he could
have moved beyond boilerplate engaged with John G. Marty. I am not sure
that
that could have happened.
--
Leigh has left the list. I mentioned that I thought that Lou's
first comment was a
bit too harsh.
I would have hoped that we could have learned something from Eric;
that he could
have moved beyond boilerplate engaged with John G. Marty. I am
not sure that
that could have happened.
--
You may be right.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:43:27PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
It is actually not in very good form to subscribe to a mailing list
and begin posting long provocative essays right off the bat. He would
have been better off easing into the discussion. Frankly, I don't
think he
On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:27 PM, John Gulick wrote:
(Unfortunately characters like
this, who no matter their well-meaning guise are not
capable of Socratic dialogue, frequent Louis' list and he
can smell them coming from a mile away.)
Socratic dialogue! That's a new one! Its a good term though
On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
You may be right.
No, he is not. Michael, with all respect (to you and to LP), this is
all guesswork on what he was interested in or not. And as Gulick's
response demonstrates, there was no attempt to productively engage
him, but quite the
MP posted:
I would have hoped that we could have learned something from Eric; that he
could
have moved beyond boilerplate engaged with John G. Marty. I am not sure
that
that could have happened.
JG sez:
I wince at the suggestion that I'm in the same league as Marty when it comes to
the
On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:03 PM, ravi wrote:
Doug questioned the guys credibility by
calling Fox News polemical genius and other such stuff
They are geniuses of polemic. That's a completely noncontroversial
statement. I'm almost embarrassed by the obviousness of it, in fact.
Doug
(Unfortunately characters like this, who no matter their
well-meaning guise are not capable of Socratic dialogue
frequent Louis' list and he can smell them coming from a
mile away.)Socratic dialogue! That's a new one! Its a good term
though -- single-dimensional attack on the side of
On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:03 PM, ravi wrote:
Doug questioned the guys credibility by
calling Fox News polemical genius and other such stuff
They are geniuses of polemic. That's a completely noncontroversial
statement. I'm almost embarrassed by
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 18, 2008, at 8:20 PM, ravi wrote:
I believe they are geniuses of
nothing, even if they tend to offer the polemical, unless of course we
consider success a sole measure of genius. i.e., Fox News is
successful at riling up the obvious suspects and the cheapest
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 18, 2008, at 8:03 PM, John Gulick wrote:
who brings more
clutter than enlightenment to left-wing maillists.
Doyle;
Many Lists seem to function on the principle of argument and perhaps
long threads with a lot of detail. What's the purpose?
In most cases there is
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