Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:18:19 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 03:07 PM 6/5/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:
>> On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Mike B. wrote:
>> > At 03:20 PM 6/4/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:

>> >> 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?
>>
>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.

Very likely.

>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'm shocked that someone who once made his living as an editor has such
poor reading comprehension.  As the quotes above (from your last message
even) should clearly show, my statement that you decided to get personal
was not based on your saying you were withdrawing from the thread, but on
your saying that I live in a world of my own...etc..  That was the first
comment in the thread aimed at a participant...hence you making it
personal.  Since then others have joined in that, and now me with the first
sentence in this paragraph.  It seems best if it ends ASAP.

-- Mike B.
--
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those that never win AND never
quit are idiots.