NP RE: Pynchon wrote in his defense...we think they are some kind of friends

[Monte Davis]

Joseph Tracy unloaded on Stewart Brand (and, glancingly, Ian McEwan), ending
with:

> The information about these ties [clients of GBN Consulting, where 
> Brand is a partner] are from FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.

Quite so, and I agree that those reporting Brand's views should note the
affiliation.

The rest, though -- "pimping"... "bullshit about being 'convinced'"...
"salesman and an ad man," etc., is your own.

As McEwan says in another connection, "I suppose it's the sort of thing I
should re-examine at some stage, as these things do become a habit."