is there no higher purpose...

[David Gentle]

<<...to this list than the backbiting and pettifogging, pretentious pedantry on display every day
from the malignant magpie and his ilk? Truly tedious stuff.  And deeply embarrassing to all of us.
It gives new meaning to spam.>>
Yes. So why don't you do something better? (Not that I really have, but I kind of enjoy the constant
fighting while we wait for the next Pynchon. And the next Star Wars. And the last collected edition
of Cerebus the Aardvark)

David Gentle