Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)

[Ian Livingston]

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

Nah. I'm still fit. It's a long way to the nearest street, though.
Tough to organize when you don't know anybody. If I can, though, I'll
be there. I can catch a baton as well as anyone.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> Besides I thought Prof Orwell (most recently) taught us that language is
>>> not just words & diction, but life, death, and freedom?
>>>
>>> The gleeful-sounding-ness of 'spree' does make it inadvisable as a word
>>> to describe murder.
>>>
>>> Allegedly,
>>> JB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:34 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "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
>>



-- 
"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