Of course it's self serving! It's clearly also serving of a fairly large community, and specifically by one of that community who is affected. Everyone who wants to preserve some part of liberty for himself is serving of others as well as himself. Your whine is like saying that any member of a group that complains about bad treatment is being self serving! Further, so what if it is self serving? If a fact is self serving, by what logic is it therefore untrue? Wouldn't the facts a black man offers as evidence that he was unfairly treated at a job interview be self serving? Would they therefore be "as valid as self serving 'factoids' can be?" Perhaps this is a logical reason for dismissing them or denigrating him as a person? Would you require an independent assessment from a white man without employment problems because the black mans "evidence" or "factoids" are self serving? Aren't all facts argued in evidence of anyone's position self serving? Of course they are! Are you capable of arguing ideas or only of disparaging persons? I assume you are capable. I know you are. Right now you are looking like a man "unarmed in a battle of wits" and resorting to ad homonym remarks. Surely there's a better man in there. I've seen it before so I know that a decent intellect resides in there somewhere.
fac�toid n. 1.. A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition: "What one misses finally is what might have emerged beyond both facts and factoidsa profound definition of the Marilyn Monroe phenomenon" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt). 2.. Usage Problem. A brief, somewhat interesting fact. How many private firearms are owned by how many US citizens is provided by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The amount of ammunition sold each year to private US citizens is from the same source. Firearm use against persons is from published FBI statistics, but may also be obtained (strangely enough) from the US Center for Disease control. Do you take issue with any particular "factoid"? Which one? Regards, Bob.... -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!" - Benjamin Franklin From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well Mr. Blakely, you definitely have the bigger virtual penis. > Your self serving factoids are as valid as self serving factoids > can be.
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