Posted on 03/27/2005 3:21:56 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
He's an outlaw for playing chess? Sounds like he's not the only mental case in the cupboard.
"It's the only thing I could do all right,
And it's turning out all wrong!
Look what they've done to my song."
It's nice to know that liberals at the AP believe that true "individualism" expresses itself through virulent anti-Americanism.
I guess they've found another existentialist Marxist nitwit to fawn over.
Listen, I don't want to get in a pissing contest with you. I have simultaneously played 5 seperate games of Monopoly, 5 players each and won easily in less than 1 hour. Like I said, *I* am the greatest Monopoly player that has ever walked the face of this earth.....you can bow at my feet now ;)
I for one couldn't care less about Fischer or his radical ideas. Good riddance to him. We don't need his type here.
However, having said that, the libertarian in me wonders what business is it of the Imperial Federal Government where its citizens travel?
Excellent tagline!
Please, we don't want to hurt anyone's self-esteem here. Under the new multi-cultural rules in effect, EVERYONE is the greatest Monopoly player ever!
Thanks! Some, however, do not approve....
The line between genius and insanity is thin. And sometimes it snaps.
Good grief. Maybe in Chess there is no line.
Fischer is living proof that you can be intelligent as all get-out (no pun intended) and still be paralyzingly stupid when it comes to common sense.
But regardless of how weird he is, you got to give Fischer this: He lives up to his convictions. At least he - thankfully - got out of the USA, and all I ask of him is that he not come back.
I wish more "common-sense challenged" liberals would do the same.
No games are allowed, competition is bad because someone might lose and get their "feelings" hurt. *GASP!*
Exactly.
Here at the Organic Multi-Cultural Non-Judgmental School of Self-Esteem, everyone is a winner. Well, not actually a winner, since that would imply a loser. We prefer to say "everyone is a "self-actualizer."
There is a fine line between genius and insane. In a way I feel really sorry for Bobby Fischer. He annihilated the who's who of chess in his day. I have a lot of respect for his accomplishments and just because they happend so long ago does not make them less important. He was the man.
However, the world he must live in (and share with us) is just to dynamic for him to control. Sadly he is confined to a 64 squared- 32 piece universe.
In some ways he reminds me John Nash.
You mean like Stuart Smalley?
"Cause I'm good enough, and I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"
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