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

[rich]

I think the sentiments are fairly parallel. not sure where all this vitriol
about Ohio comes from. i think it's dumb

rich

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:23 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 bit.ly/SsPXxC<http://t.co/N7ZouPUm>
>>>>> **Download the official Twitter app here<https://twitter.com/download>
>>>>> ****Sent from my iPad
>>>>> ****
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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