Well good riddance!
quan On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks but I do drink decafe, as my energy is all natural. I'll be pretty much speaking past you, here, so feel free to take a breather: Back when I came back to the United States in the Neolithic year 1968, I gradually realised that real political discourse, the kind held in the rest of the world, would have to be taught patiently to Americans for quite a while, before they could hope to catch the knack of it. That was 40 years ago; progress has been glacial at best. One logical place to start is with the perhaps startling epiphany that venting your anger is, actually, almost never persuasive. One can enumerate the exceptions: Your _dog_ cares that you're upset. Probably. Your spouse, maybe, on a good day. Your children if any: not so much. Your psychiatrist, absolutely -- but only on an hourly basis. Everyone else, we just don't care. Once your typical ANSI-standard American has cogitated on that revelation for sufficient baking time, it might be possible for him/her to move on to Rhetoric 1A (freshman bonehead rhetoric): Talking to People Who Might Not Be Exactly Like You and Not Immediately Pissing Them off. _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
