Desperately seeking subtext

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 31 12:13:07 CDT 2006


The word "outrage" is over the top.  I would note,
however, that were the tables reversed here, and Doug
or I had pulled something similar, we'd never hear the
end of it from Robt., any more than Doug had, at least
until recently, from Robt. over l'affaire Playboy
Japan (which, by the way, is still far from
conclusively, uh, concluded, and at least involved no
first-hand malfeasance on teh part of anyone here). 
But Robt. seems indeed not only to have violated
soemone's confidence here, not only to have posted
hearsay presented as such as fact, but to have posted
it publically as well as such, and then to have
referred to his own Wikipedia edit as authorizing his
P-List post.  And to have been both hypocritial and
obnoxious about it.  Again, how muuch slack would
y'all've cut Doug in a similar situation?  Or me, for
that matter?  Me, I won't harp on it at least, not in
the least because Prof. Krafft has requested we not,
but I wouldn't hesitate to raise its specter next time
Robt. goes off on someone.  Doug I've encopurage not
to spit on the corpe (or zombie, as teh case may be
now), but I acn't say I entirely blame him ... 

--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> I think this outrage is a little over the top.

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