Hardly TRP at all, yet............

[David Morris]

I think this thread has been about Columbus, OH, not the Spanish explorer.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:15 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> i find all this columbus hating rather tiresome. as if native peoples were
> living in harmony and not murdering each other, too. read fathers & crows.
> it's standard reductions of a complicated world into an easily identifiable
> good guy-bad guy history which I find moronic. i dont condone wounded knee
> or cortez or like injustices but surely we can be a bit more discerning
> than chorusing cortez the killer.
>
> rich
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah it started with Columbus and spread from the asshole of Ohio out.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Nov 5, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> amen to that...
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:13 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> there's enough mediocrity to go around no matter where you are
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kirn is a novelist, as you may know, covering this election as a writer
>>>> not like a journalist. I am not sending this to
>>>> start plist conversations on the election or OHIO, yet I bet, in the
>>>> way we do, it might and they will be better than some journalists'.
>>>>
>>>> I am sending it because the very novelistic judgment of "mediocrity"
>>>> reminds me like a knocking stick of TRP's take on OHIO, via
>>>> the Swiftian savaging of Columbus in that greater and greater book:
>>>> Against the Day. And, of course, Columbus has naming resonance
>>>> with the promise of America. Goodbye,Columbus (but I hope you come
>>>> through for this election. Again.)
>>>> **
>>>> *The New Republic (@tnr <https://twitter.com/tnr>)*
>>>> 11/5/12, 8:00 AM <https://twitter.com/tnr/status/265438354118684672>
>>>> . at walterkirn <https://twitter.com/@walterkirn> says the fact that #Ohio<http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#Ohio>,
>>>> the cradle of U.S. mediocrity, gets to pick the president is terrifying
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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