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To: Mamzelle
Have they selected you to talk to me, because they're scared to?

I thought you had it all figured out - this is merely the screen name used to deal with you. Or something.

Or maybe some just find such posts too ridiculous to be worthy of a response - personally, I like to insure that such things get the ridicule they deserve. Not that it matters - even after some less-than-gentle prodding on my part, you still can't bring yourself to address the substance of what he says. Why bother, I guess, when it's so much easier to simply complain that he's a patronizing dork, and ignore any question of whether or not he's correct.

But this is an old tactic - let's give credit to the inventor:

Why should we bother to reply to Kautski? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There's no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautski is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.

- V.I. Lenin


252 posted on 12/02/2005 6:52:14 AM PST by Senator Bedfellow (Sneering condescension.)
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To: Senator Bedfellow
Will attempts to make the same weak point I've read on the home pages of the evos--so I bother to read the writings of all kinds of weinies.

To wit--"The voters will reject us if we seem unsophisticated! We must sign on to the overreaching claims of evos or the voters might think we're ignorant rednecks!" Argument to potential embarrassment.

Just a plain weak argument. Will is arguing from elitism, because he's been arguing that way for twenty years. Twenty years ago there weren't many conservative writers. Now we've got lots of them, and they're also better looking. He's not paid attn to--he's the Phil Donahue of the right.

The right has much more strength from those icky ole "fundies" than they do from these evo weaklings--if they're scared to death to entertain a new theory, even one that's preposterous to them (physicists do it all the time, but the prospect turns some biologists to shivering jello)--then what else are they scared of?

Who needs a scaredy cat?

253 posted on 12/02/2005 7:00:40 AM PST by Mamzelle (evopompous#3--Your source is scientifically illiterate.)
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To: Senator Bedfellow
Why should we bother to reply to Kautski?

That's good. Very good. Not to be confused with the message of my tagline, however.

257 posted on 12/02/2005 7:49:46 AM PST by PatrickHenry (No response if you're a troll, lunatic, dotard, common scold, or incurable ignoramus.)
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