> > Is there *any* US President PEN-Lers would consider progressive > > overall?
How I wish we could rid ourselves of this vulgar notion: as if one could boil somebody down to a 'progressive overall' rating. On a scale of one to ten, estimate the progressivity average of the following. You may extend the estimate to three decimal places, but no farther. 1) Genghiz Khan 2) Vlad the Impaler 3) Maria Theresa 4) Benedict of Nursia 5) Prince Gautama 6) Pontius Pilate 7) Blackbeard the Pirate 8) Henry VIII (of England) 9) Leon Czolgosz 10) Mad King Ludwig (of Bavaria) You lose a lot of information when you reduce a vector to a scalar. -- [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org 'I don't want to know about it; I don't choose to discuss it; I don't admit it!' Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him (and consequently sheer away) with those words and a flushed face. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
