In a message dated 11/14/2003 4:47:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
well, I *do*
toss out the baseball/football posts frequently :\
No no say it isn't so. I have been engaged in these mostly for your entertainment
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In a message dated 11/14/2003 5:01:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Are you trying to insinuate that some of us are obsessed
with
SPORTS???
I was thinking more about Sports Wear.
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In a message dated 11/10/2003 10:34:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
42 for a woman, 39 for a man.
But much more importantly what is the median of life?
What is the mean of life?
Julia
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In a message dated 11/10/2003 11:17:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I wonder if this person would consider trolling to include posting
multiple articles every day, with insult-laden subject lines, propogate a
single peculiar agenda?It seems to me that that
In a message dated 11/2/2003 1:30:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Marx _certainly_ would have approved of Lenin's and
Stalin's anti-semitism. On the Jewish Question is
so viciously anti-semitic that the historical affinity
of some Jewish intellectuals for Marxism has
Congratulations
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In a message dated 10/23/2003 9:51:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I dunno. it seems very weird to me that in wondering if somebody is a
racist that the second question one would ask is does he
give money to
black colleges?
Just an example. I'm still waiting for
In a message dated 10/23/2003 9:54:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
This is one of the most infuriating comments that I have heard from many
sources regarding this whole thing what is the point of appealing in
code to somebody in this instance? i.e. for what
:
...sure doesn't look very impressive to me. His post season ERA has to
be up around 5 somewhere, he's too whimpy to pitch on 3 days rest, and
his sportsmanship is questionable to boot.
I was a Red Sox fan and a Yankee hater for most of my youth and into my
adulthood, but I'm
:
...sure doesn't look very impressive to me. His post season ERA has to
be up around 5 somewhere, he's too whimpy to pitch on 3 days rest, and
his sportsmanship is questionable to boot.
I was a Red Sox fan and a Yankee hater for most of my youth and into my
adulthood, but I'm
Did anyone see the Week In Review in the NYT today? An article on people using photo
phones to take pictures of strangers doing odd/embarrasssing things in public and
posting same on the Web. The beginning of what Brin talked about in his novel.
Excellent forseeing
Did anyone see the Week In Review in the NYT today? An article on people using photo
phones to take pictures of strangers doing odd/embarrasssing things in public and
posting same on the Web. The beginning of what Brin talked about in his novel.
Excellent forseeing
In a message dated 10/11/2003 1:21:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Indeed. In fact, if ESPN had fired Limbaugh because his comments showed
an utter lack of knowledge about football and the media hyping of all
mobile QB's, be they Doug Flutie or Donovan McNabb, I
In a message dated 10/14/2003 4:15:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I was a Red Sox fan and a Yankee hater for most of my youth
and into my
adulthood, but I'm rooting for these jerkoffs to loose.
Go Cubs...
Which jerkoff. the ny jerkoffs (my team) or the boston
In a message dated 10/14/2003 5:51:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
but his argument
was not, on its face, entirely unreasonable. It
certainly wasn't racist. Calling him a racist is
nothing more than the usual tactic of arguing that
anybody who disagrees with the PC
congratulations
congratulations
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In a message dated 9/22/2003 9:52:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
The Fool quoted:
I never called the movie anti-Semitic (...)
Which is stupid, because the Gospels _are_ anti-Semitic, and
a movie that pretends to be faithful to them [AFAIK, if Gibson
wants to
In a message dated 9/22/2003 9:52:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
The Fool quoted:
I never called the movie anti-Semitic (...)
Which is stupid, because the Gospels _are_ anti-Semitic, and
a movie that pretends to be faithful to them [AFAIK, if Gibson
wants to
In a message dated 9/6/2003 7:45:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course I could go on to say that feudalism was an agreement between two
men in which one did service for the other in exchange for land, and has
nothing to do with rulership. But then, I don't think
In a message dated 8/29/2003 6:48:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Interesting image of the blackout from a geosynchronous
satellite
Actually this photo is apparently a hoax or at least a composite of a series of photos.
In a message dated 8/27/2003 5:01:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
On the flip side, many are claiming that to forcibly remove the Ten
Commandments monument would violate _their_ First Amendment rights of
freedom of religion.
(I'm not arguing one way or the other
In a message dated 8/28/2003 1:59:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Moore's Law
The immorality of the Ten Commandments.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 2:04 PM PT
George Carlin did this first and it was funnier
In a message dated 8/25/2003 9:38:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I've upgraded Mailman from 2.1 to 2.1.2 and hope that now
it'll behave. But
there's also a patch I think I need to apply...
Let's just see if this message gets out.
Got it
--
Nick Arnett
I can see Endymion as a stand-alone movie. But I agree, Hyperion and Fall
would be nearly impossible to transfer properly to the big screen.
That is what they said about LOR. Just get Peter Jackson to devote a few years to the
project
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In a message dated 8/10/2003 3:55:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
This very concept is now being chalanged. Not the spoken ability, but the
assumption made by chomsky et. al. that writen ability is
also inate is now
under an increasing amount of attack.
I am no
Reproduced, that is.
Alexander Norman Lipscomb (Alec) was born at 7:46 AM on Monday, August
11th. He weighed 9 lbs, 8 oz, and his mother is incredibly happy that
someone else will be carrying him for the next while.
Congratulations.
Woohoo Congratulations to you both!!!
:-)
Just finished Simmons newest. Liked it quite alot. Like Hyperion it is part 1 of a 2
parter. The first uses the Illiad the second the Oddysea (probably speled both of
these classics). Nice mix of fiction and mythology. Three apparently seperate stories
that come together at the end. Still have
In a message dated 8/11/2003 1:14:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
That would only hold true if the criminals were aware of who did and who did
not own guns ahead of time.
I think the gist of the argument is that legal gun ownership deters crime in
general and there are
In a message dated 8/2/2003 12:46:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Which of course is what
this all about.So many Democrats turned a blind
eye to Clinton's
perjury
But this is where you are precisely wrong John. No democrat
defended
Clinton this. Not one
In a message dated 8/10/2003 12:26:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, TomFODW writes:
Interestingly, in his novel Snow in August, set in Brooklyn in the late
1940s, Pete Hammill has a rabbi who is a refugee from Nazi
Germany teach a Catholic
teenager he befriends how to create the Golem. Good
In a message dated 8/3/2003 12:54:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Now, I think both of them are very important figures,
because they are extremely influential. One is the
single most cited living intellectual. The other
edits the most important magazine of th Left.
My best
friend, business partner and often the backup admin for Brin-L, had a
seizure this morning at 3 a.m., went to a nearby hospital, where a CT scan
showed a 2x3 cm mass in his left parietal node. He was transferred to
Stanford, where he's finally getting some rest now, I think.
I am
I will be off to the Canadian Rockies for about 10 days. I expect to have about 2000
emails by the time I get back and so don't expect much from me even then. Now children
play nice until I get back
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In a message dated 7/30/2003 10:20:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
As is usual in the intelligence business, the British said
that they can't
reveal their sources so as to preserve their leads.
Now what?
Don't use it in the SOU. You don't insult the british by
In a message dated 7/29/2003 10:57:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Actually, Bush *did* do that, and Britain said that they completely stand
by their intelligence with the highest degree of confidence.
Oh I get it; it went like this. Bush- Do you guys have
In a message dated 7/28/2003 9:16:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Ahem. You have forgotten Austalia, who was very much a true ally. You
have also forgotten Japan, the leader of which essentially got his
country's constitution ammended so that Japan could help us out
In a message dated 7/28/2003 9:16:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Ahem. You have forgotten Austalia, who was very much a true ally. You
have also forgotten Japan, the leader of which essentially got his
country's constitution ammended so that Japan could help us out
In a message dated 7/27/2003 6:43:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
And its unclear that arrest is even the proper word to describe what the
Chairman tried to do - since I don't think that even if the Chairman's
request had been carried out that the Democratic
In a message dated 7/27/2003 6:41:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Lastly, if Al Gore had won the 2000 election, would you be bitterly
complaining that he did so thanks to his partisans on the
Florida Supreme
Court?
If a full recount of the florida vote had been
In a message dated 7/27/2003 7:07:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
At 06:49 PM 7/27/2003 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
QUESTION 1) The British inform us that they have learned that Iraq has
recently tried to acquire significant quantities of intelligence in
In a message dated 7/27/2003 9:21:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Do you seriously believe that if any person other than
Bush were President we would have taken out Saddam by
now? Really?
I think there was some sentiment to do this amoung Clinton's advisors. I am not
In a message dated 7/24/2003 11:43:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Didn't they used to duel on the floors of Congress?
Sounds like classic ingomious political chicanery to me.
Sounds more like republican arrogance to me. Now the perpetrator (chairman of the
House
In a message dated 7/24/2003 11:47:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
If your criticism is that Bush said learned instead of informed us that
they believe, then who is being pedantic and mincing words
here?
The criticsm is that this is a weasally way of saying something
In a message dated 7/25/2003 1:08:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Uh, didja forget? Gore *did* win -- the vote, anyway.
Just not the office
that usually goes with it.
I am not one who thinks that Gore won. The popular vote does not determine the final
result and
In a message dated 7/25/2003 8:54:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Eh, probably not. I have an almost reflexive need to point out the
truth - and ultimately I consider this growing urban legend that the USSC
somehow changed the outcome of the 2000 election to
In a message dated 7/25/2003 9:09:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
The fact that a Committee Chairman in the House is making
that tradeoff in a way that the minority disagrees with is hardly new.
Thus, I know that I am not a hypocrite, as you accuse, because Democratic
In a message dated 7/25/2003 9:28:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I think that's Gautam's point. If, as you seem to agree, the Left is
simply incapable of coming up with a coherent war plan against terrorism,
then the Left is inherently unqualified and unworthy to
In a message dated 7/25/2003 10:22:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
1) The establishment of a secure, viable and independent Palestine
alongside Israel.
2) Regime change in Iran, Syria, Lybia, Saudi Arabia,
Egypt, and the DPRK
We would then be at war for at least a
QUESTION 1) The British inform us that they have learned that Iraq has
recently tried to acquire significant quantities of intelligence in Africa.
The Bush Administration naturally tries to verify this claim, but cannot
do so. They tell the British that we can't verify their claim.
QUESTION 1) The British inform us that they have learned that Iraq has
recently tried to acquire significant quantities of intelligence in Africa.
The Bush Administration naturally tries to verify this claim, but cannot
do so. They tell the British that we can't verify their claim.
In a message dated 7/27/2003 5:48:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Not to say that the Republicans look all that good in this, but it could
have been worse. (And then the backlash would have been
that much more,
as well.)
Worse in what way in 21st Century USA? Had
I think statements indicating that the
administration is obviously telling the truth and
that anyone not agreeing this is either what?
stupid? venal? totally naive? totally cynical?
Taken advantage of by people more interested in
political power than the national interest.
Sol in
In a message dated 7/24/2003 8:34:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
What's carefully crafted about The British have
learned
The White House wanted a stronger statement but the CIA experts would not appove it.
They tried several iterations before this was chosen
In a message dated 7/24/2003 5:26:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
If John Ashcroft were anyone _but_ an evangelical
Christian (speaking as a non-evangelical
non-Christian) the way he is treated by the Left would
be recognized by everyone for what it is - sheer
In a message dated 7/21/2003 12:06:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
This, of course, was a totally unreasonable presumpion regarding
intelligence from our British allies, which they had
strongly vouched for
in response to US questions.
But of course this statement was
In a message dated 7/20/2003 11:29:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Illegal?Insuring its control of the US?
What are you referring to?
Loading the courts with right wing ideologes who will restrict the rigths of citizens
to gain justice
Ensuring that government
Actually, a large part of the justification for te war was based on the
fact that Iraq was continuing to pursue the acquisition of WMD's -
particularly nuclear weapons - and not that it necessarily already had
nuclear weapons. Moreover, I also recall Colin Powell mentioning mobile
At 05:37 PM 7/17/2003 -0700 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Furthermore, Bob, you're much too smart to believe
something as dumb as that the world of intelligence is
quite as clear as whether Bill Clinton had sex with
Monica Lewinsky.
Since I never got around to answering Gautam on this issue
Maybe you think so. I lived two blocks north of the
World Trade Center site for a year. Let's just say
that I have less than no sympathy for any such view.
Let's see how many New Yorkers think we're not at war.
How many of the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How many diplomats
In a message dated 7/19/2003 9:35:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Frankly, Ray, I think that I'm showing a lot more
respect for people on the list who disagree with me
than most of the people on this list are showing to
me. The difference is that I'm in the minority,
nd becouse of that you are mixing facts as if they were related when they are
not.
It is an old boys club writ on a global
scale.
No backing for this. just becouse the above is true (if it is) does not mean
that they are not doing what is right when it comes to forign policy.
I
The purpose of science is not to help us understand reality; it is not
about the truth. Indeed, one of my favorite statements about science is
the most important development in the history of science is when it was
decided that it wasn't about the truth.
I would argue that most scientists
In a message dated 7/19/2003 7:13:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
what would you have istead, state capitalism?
How about a rationale tax policy? One that stimulates the economy by putting money in
the hands that those who will spend it. How about a rationale
In a message dated 7/20/2003 11:34:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
At 11:10 PM 7/18/2003 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This actually a JDG
style arguement. The things that conservatives and
replubicans do are right and moral because republicans are right and
In a message dated 7/18/2003 3:28:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Perhaps Bob should post a rant where he whines about how the
conservatives on the list are intolerant of liberals.
I have not the time or energy to answer Gautam rant. I will. In a preview, I dare him
In a message dated 7/18/2003 11:00:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
There
is a pervasive dishonesty that has crept into this
issue where we have people actively crippling American
war efforts for short-term partisan advantage - and a
bunch of very bright people on the
for all I know the US would have seized on some
other pretext
to attack.)
Even if this were true, would that have been such a
bad thing?
It would not be a bad thing if the administration was honest about its intentions and
motives. It seems clear that the WMD arguement was
In a message dated 7/18/2003 11:55:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
It is unpatriotic to falsely attack the rationale for
the war when it is obvious to anyone who looks at the
facts that the Administration was telling the truth.
Period
But clearly not every one agrees
In a message dated 7/18/2003 1:09:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I would say that it already has told plenty, actually.
The nuclear weapons plans _by themselves_ were a
gross violation of the UN sanctions.
The plans were a violations but the administration did not
Of course, there's _also_ the fact that what he said
was true. He claimed that the British told us that
Iraq was seeking Uranium in Africa. A true statement.
The British do, in fact, _still_ claim that Iraq was
seeking Uranium in Africa - they stand by the claim.
A doubly true statement.
In a message dated 7/6/2003 10:08:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember seeing Ryan in his later Houston years.
IIRC, he had one losing
season (well maybe it was a 15-14 season) when he
led the league in ERA.
He
I did. I think that was ridiculous. If you think
Sandy Koufax was the best pitcher of all time, you're
simply wrong. There is no serious argument for this.
If you think he was the most dominant pitcher on a
per-game basis you're also wrong, but at least you
have a case and we can talk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well Koufax, Bob, a pretty knowledgeable baseball guy,
said that Pedro was better than he was. That's worth
something too, don't you think?
He's just being modest. But yes I would take that very seriously.
Bob, I have some idea of what a phenomenally
accomplished
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well Koufax, Bob, a pretty knowledgeable baseball guy,
said that Pedro was better than he was. That's worth
something too, don't you think?
He's just being modest. But yes I would take that very seriously.
Bob, I have some idea of what a phenomenally
accomplished
If we use your metrics - that is, just against the
other players of his time, ignoring park effects,
difficulty, everything - then why isn't Gibson the
best ever? His 1968 season was better than anything
Koufax ever did, phenomenal though Koufax was.
It was the best season ever in my
If we use your metrics - that is, just against the
other players of his time, ignoring park effects,
difficulty, everything - then why isn't Gibson the
best ever? His 1968 season was better than anything
Koufax ever did, phenomenal though Koufax was.
It was the best season ever in my
In a message dated 7/12/2003 2:27:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Adjusted for era, Pedro's numbers at his peak are just
flat-out better. A modern's bias would be if the two
were roughly equal, and I was saying _that_ showed
that Pedro was better. But that is not, in
In a message dated 7/11/2003 4:34:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
If you think he was the most dominant pitcher on a
per-game basis you're also wrong, but at least you
have a case and we can talk about it. Arguing that he
was better than Seaver or Clemens is foolish.
In a message dated 7/11/2003 9:19:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
John, that's my point. What is the purpose of a
pitcher? It's to keep runs off the board. That's it.
A pitcher has only one function on a team.
No-hitters, strikeouts, stuff, they're all
In a message dated 7/11/2003 9:28:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Furthermore, injuries aren't a random or infrequent
factor for pitchers. They are a non-random, frequent
factor. Power pitchers are less likely to get injured
that soft-tossers (Koufax, of course, was
In a message dated 7/11/2003 11:07:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Yeah, that's my entire point. He's a fine running
back. But it takes more than that to be the best ever.
Well how about Jim Brown. Walked away from football still in his prime after several
dominant
In a message dated 7/11/2003 11:07:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Yeah, that's my entire point. He's a fine running
back. But it takes more than that to be the best ever.
Well how about Jim Brown. Walked away from football still in his prime after several
dominant
Except that Koufax pitched in Dodger Stadium, off a
20 mound (the mound in Dodger Stadium was illegally
high) in an era when the _batting title winner_ hit
.301 in the American League, and the HR high was in
the low 30s, IIRC. Pedro puts up ERAs similar to
Koufax's when the batting title
Koufax continued.
Koufax pitched 397 games; he completed 137 and had 40 shut outs (11 in 63 got that 11
shutouts in one year, 7 in 64 and 8 in 65).
Koufax pitched 7 ws games. He was 4 and 3 (4 and 2 from 63 on). His ERA was .97. In
63 the Dodgers swept the Yankess a team that won the AL by
part 3
Koufax was big and strong. He had enormous powerful hands. He could hold 6 balls in
one hand. He threw two pitches and never varied his release point. He threw fast ball
that batters swore sped up. This is of course impossible but what it did not do is
slow down (all others do). His
In a message dated 7/5/2003 6:21:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought the stupid tunnel trip and the expedition into
the gas-station
house were awfully cheap.
Maybe the gas station but I thought the tunnel was cool; after all it is horror sci fi
movie and
In a message dated 7/5/2003 6:21:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought the stupid tunnel trip and the expedition into
the gas-station
house were awfully cheap.
Maybe the gas station but I thought the tunnel was cool; after all it is horror sci fi
movie and
In a message dated 7/5/2003 6:21:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought the stupid tunnel trip and the expedition into
the gas-station
house were awfully cheap.
Maybe the gas station but I thought the tunnel was cool; after all it is horror sci fi
movie and
In a message dated 7/5/2003 6:21:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought the stupid tunnel trip and the expedition into
the gas-station
house were awfully cheap.
Maybe the gas station but I thought the tunnel was cool; after all it is horror sci fi
movie and
In a message dated 7/5/2003 6:21:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought the stupid tunnel trip and the expedition into
the gas-station
house were awfully cheap.
Maybe the gas station but I thought the tunnel was cool; after all it is horror sci fi
movie and
In a message dated 7/5/2003 6:31:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, TomFODW writes:
There is an unfortunate tendency among some of Koufax's admirers, especially those
who have known him, to elevate him into some kind of human paragon. Granted that he
appears to be a highly decent, respectful,
In a message dated 7/6/2003 8:15:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, TomFODW writes:
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that Koufax himself would not
go along with others' overestimation of him? I certainly agree with you on that,
since that was my unstated point: that it was his
In a message dated 7/4/2003 10:01:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
More than a bit of night of the dead as well. Just saw this today.
Despite or in spite of its wholly unoriginal plot this is
a terrific
movie. See it
Are there any explosions? I like
No baseball for a while so I thought I might stir the pot. Just finished Jane Leavy's
excellent if reverential bio. It provides some insight into this extrarordinarly
private man. She dispells notions that he did not really like baseball, or that he was
aloof from teamates. But the main thing
In a message dated 6/29/2003 11:43:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Sounds like _Lifeforce_ without Mathilda May. Bah
Or that Richard Matheson novel that got made into The Last Man
on Earth with Vincent Price, Omega Man with Charlton
Heston,
and yet another planned
In a message dated 6/29/2003 11:43:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Sounds like _Lifeforce_ without Mathilda May. Bah
Or that Richard Matheson novel that got made into The Last Man
on Earth with Vincent Price, Omega Man with Charlton
Heston,
and yet another planned
That's the thing about empires. They squeeze out competitive forces and
it's those competitive forces that keep innovation and progress alive.
For example there was one point when china was all set to conquer Europe,
they had a massive fleet the likes never seen up to that time, and their
That's the thing about empires. They squeeze out competitive forces and
it's those competitive forces that keep innovation and progress alive.
For example there was one point when china was all set to conquer Europe,
they had a massive fleet the likes never seen up to that time, and their
In a message dated 6/13/2003 12:46:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
What right did the UN have to tell Arabs how they would be governed, or
to take away their homes?
For whatever its worth; Palestine was part of the british empire after the breakup of
the Otomen Empire.
In a message dated 6/13/2003 3:25:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Well, I'm not Steve, but you're getting into what
might be the single most contentious issue in all of
historical research right now. I think one of Leon
Uris's novels actually does a really good job of
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