Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:32:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Beyond a Great Con...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Oh, for pete's sake.  Now somebody else is fanning the fire.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Elspeth Kovar wrote:

> Dick,
>
> I am completely at a loss as to how a statement about a person's actions
> can be "let's you and him fight" as the only people in that exchange are
> the person who said it and the person it was said to.  If you're going to
> be obnoxious at least be accurate about it.

Ted's egregious "Stop being an Enabler and be a Leader" was a
recommendation that _the_person_he_was_addressing_ should do something
drastic about the Lee-Keith matter, rather than that he should continue to
(try to) calm things down.  It was only the latest of a number of ploys
aimed at getting other people who were trying to be peacemakers or were
simply minding their own business to be aggressive toward people he wanted
Punished.  Am I going too fast for you?

> "Some people have a genius for the game
> Of pouring oil upon the troubled flame"
>
> was absolutely a snarky remark,

Yes.

>and totally uncalled for.

No.  As Wellington said, "nothing is worse than impunity".

And that ends my discussion with you.  Let us return to our _moutons_.

-- Dick Eney