From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:07:08 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

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From: "dicconf" <dicconf at radix.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:12 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery

>
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Mike B. wrote:
>
> > At 03:20 PM 6/4/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:
> >> From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
> >>> Wrong on both counts.  Unless you can read minds, don't presume to
tell
> >> me what my motives are.
> >>
> >> You live in a world of your own.  From here it looks like a parallel
> >> universe with only a few connections to ours.
> >
> > Which would make your telling me why I'm doing what I'm doing even more
> > arrogant, since you would presumably know nothing of that other
universe.
> >
> > Is there some reason you've decided to make this personal?  Did
something I
> > say hit too close to home or something?
>
> Asperity is the standard Ted White reaction when an argument gets going.
> I suppose he intends it to scare off those who don't like to make a fuss
> in public.

I see absolutely no point in political argument with someone whose basic
premises are widely at variance with my own.  There is insufficient common
ground for genuine communication.  It is interesting to see that Mike took
my statement that I was withdrawing from this "discussion" as "you've
decided to make this personal," but in fact that is at best a diversion.

I wondered how long it would take you to decide to weigh in.  Some things
never change, do they?

--Ted White