Mark wrote: > I have been pondering the > Hypothesis: Internet fora that do no have an explicit topic > tend to become dominated by politics, broadly defined. > > Evidence in favor of this hypothesis is that political people > apparently do not mind spending a lot of words to make their points, > so that when measured by word-count, political topics will tend to dominate. > > But there's nothing wrong with this. The reader is free to > skim through -- or completely bypass -- writings about > subjects the reader is uninterested in, and even on political topics, > entertaining writing can save the day. An example is the > part quoted below, wherein John M. makes the philosophical > distinction between the cause of why he writes as he does > -- ultimately, electrochemical events in his brain -- and > the grounds justifying what he writes. Bravo. >
Why, thank you, Mark. Now, like Maximus in "Gladiator", I am tempted to cry out to Minoru, "Are you not entertained?", but alas, I fear the answer will be "No". BTW, there was a typo in one paragraph, and rather than incur Minoru's wrath again about my overly long posts I snipped a couple of lines from that same paragraph. In the interests of levity I have corrected the typo and restored the excision below. > > As for another one of your questions the other day, namely why I write > posts > to the list, well, you guessed it, Minoru, I am using Not Honyaku as a forum > to > make friends and influence people. Someone in the Obama campaign did in fact > read my posts here, and invited me down to DC last week to nosh with Barry > [after] > a game of one-on-one. I shared my thoughts on Gaza and the auto industry with > him while kicking his ass with my killer jump shot. Then it was off to the > Elysee Palace for a state dinner with Nick and Carla. Nice chance to practice > the old parlez-vous over hors d' and bubbly while giving Nick my ideas about > that pesky Iranian nuclear program and the global financial crisis. [Excised passage follows] And Carla? Che bellissima! What can I say, simply ravishing, just ravissante! Must remember to ask Nick if she is not hiding a sister or two somewhere. Have not had so much fun since I played beard for Jacques with one of his supermodel paramours. John M. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages prior to posting, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
