In These Times

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• • 02 Apr 05
  • 3:58 pm

  Hi, my screen name is Traesom, and my real name is truly immaterial. I have just been reading the last few days of this string going back to the 30th (maybe it was the 31st), and at first I was a bit overwhelmed. I'm one of the little guys out here, and your conversations reminded me of the West Wing, which I thoroughly enjoy. Having listened (or read) for a while, however, it occurs to me that while your language and knowledge are impressive (to me at any rate), your scope is sometimes rather limited to a bunch of specifics that …

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• • 02 Apr 05
  • 4:14 pm

  Hi, Joseph, You know, I just got a little message on my machine that told me someone had responded to what I had just written, but I must confess I'm not entirely certain how the two fit together. Nevertheless, I will respond to what you have just written by saying that while I'm certainly not an economist (the furthest I ever got was Adam Smith, and Hayek's "Road to Serfdom"), but I do agree, albeit not necessarily on economic grounds, that the U.S. is in deep trouble, in almost every dimension. I was an Army and then civilian brat and grew …

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• • 02 Apr 05
  • 8:08 pm

  Okay, I'm watching the video. I watch this show a lot, by the way, and I seem vaguely to remember this one, or at least the birkenstocks are familiar. For the first 30 years of my life I had a military, or a DoD, ID card, and grew up overseas, so much of the first part of the tape is super familiar to me. I myself did duty in Vietnam, Korea, and on Guam, so I've got experience in the Orient as well. Currently one of my step-sons (who I helped raise since he was knee high to a piss-ant) is …

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• • 02 Apr 05
  • 8:45 pm

  To Earlaiman, Actually one of the reasons they periodically update dictionaries is because word meanings (and associated phrases) change (legitimately, not necessarily ignorantly) over time. I wasn't the one using the phrase in this case, but I have read the book, and still have it around here somewhere, but it's present day connotation is perfectly acceptable to use - it communicates! You don't really wish to get into good language, bad language do you?

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• • 02 Apr 05
  • 10:47 pm

  Earlier this evening I responded to something, dealing with metaphors, that perhaps I should not have. However, it rubbed me wrong then, and it has continued to rub me wrong the longer I’ve thought about it. All of you seem youngish (comparatively speaking), highly intelligent, and harbor great energies. It is that more than anything else perhaps that kept eating at my mind until I finally put it all down on paper (metaphorically speaking, of course, it was actually keyed in on the computer). Whatever worth it may or may not have for you, it has helped me considerably to have …

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