Political metaphors (was Re: on ann coulter

[Paul Mackin]

Terrance wrote:

> Paul Mackin wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Since I from time to time make ad hominem attacks against one member of the
> > p-list, in that respect I am as bad as he is.  I will commend Rob for trying to
> > use dignified argument with Doug but suspect at times he has his own doubts about
> > it.
> > .
> > P.
>
> I don't think Rob deserves to be commended here.

For my money anyone willing to treat Doug-type positions seriously though more than
one iteration deserves a commendation for patience. I know I could never do it.
Continuing logical argument with Doug doesn't bring minds closer together but father
apart. His assertions get sillier and sillier. I expect he realizes this. .I swear
sometimes he's trying to turn the whole thing into a joke. Personally I don't quite
approve of Rob's patience. Doug should just be told to go fuck himself. But I can
still believe patience is a virtue.

> His apparently
> dignified approach is nothing of the sort. Moreover, his protracted feud
> with Doug has turned this Pynchon list into a chat room about the LIST.

Nobody turns the p-list into anything.

>
> When Doug is on the canvas, Rob, like MalignD, just can't help kicking
> him a few times. Even when Doug is finally knocked out, they keep

> taunting him, trying to lure him out of the locker room, spitting on the
> canvas where Doug's blood and sweat remains conspicuous.

Doug is invariably knocked out in the first round.  However we work in a virtual world
where a knockout can simply be erased, ignored, denied. And the same identical
proven-to-be-a-looser   fisticuffical stance gets trotted out for a second round. And
a third, etc., etc..

>
>
> I'm not defending Doug. God knows I can't stand to see Dave Monroe come
> to defense like an ambulance chaser, but I think you are simply wrong on
> this.

It's useful discussion however I think and  I welcome it.

>
>
> The German soccer team beat the Saudi Arabians 8 to 0. Robe is like the
> German team, he's good, skilled, smart, trained, classic, but when we
> take a closer look we see the German players grabbing the Saudi players
> by the shirt and the jock strap, spitting on them, stepping on their
> feet, using racial slurs, elbowing them in the back of the head,
> taunting and rubbing it in.

>

>
> It's eight nothing Paul, I don't think Rob needs a coach to tell him to
> take out his defensive players and put in six strikers to run up the
> score. Does he?

I don't know what the answer is.

P.