a bit a ago the bilious byfield, t, who otherwise has a from name "ted byfield" said in response to yoshie's discoursing:
> heh.
oh ted! your prescience isn't as powerful as i once thought. i think you should have put that as "heh. [square root of minus 1]"
because of course yoshie you maintain that:
>
>Another reason why t's 'irony' doesn't work is that, in its resolute
>disregard of the referent (the deaths & expulsions of the Serbs and Roma,
>the threatened lynchings of the anti-KLA Albanians, etc.) of the story (in
>favor of paying attention to how the story is told and that only), it fails
>to be equal to the reality to which the Guardian article stood as one
>response (among many others).
and, of course, blatantly disregard this:
>at the moment, i don't think there's a lot to be gained
>from striking valorous postures and rhetorically jousting with the
>rump KLA. there are other things to be done, and i've been doing
>them for several months.
heh heh heh square root of minus one