Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)

[David Morris]

I suspect you (we) are too old for the streets, as Pynchon meant.

On Friday, March 23, 2012, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> And all this is a petty pastime that keeps us off the streets, where
> our moral outrage belongs in these times.
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> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Jude Bloom <jude at bloomradio.com> wrote:
>> You're being disingenuous, saying the discussion is about 'diction.'
'Total disregard for the facts' seems blissfully unsupported, too.
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>> Besides I thought Prof Orwell (most recently) taught us that language is
not just words & diction, but life, death, and freedom?
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>> The gleeful-sounding-ness of 'spree' does make it inadvisable as a word
to describe murder.
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>> Allegedly,
>> JB
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>> On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:34 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>>> You are not referring to the alleged murders in Afghanistan are you?
>>> That is, the murder of more than a dozen Afghans, most of the
>>> children, that a USA soldier allegedly committed recently? If you are,
>>> the assault you've launched on the press for its diction, seems a
>>> minor offense next to your total disregard for the facts.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Another example is the press calling the recent murder of sleeping
>>>> Iraqi civilians a "killing spree."  "Spree" is a really bad word
>>>> choice, now a cliche.
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> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>
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