Cybersilliness

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Oct 22 19:46:00 PDT 2000


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Christopher Susi wrote:
>>
>> >Another kid
>> >that is exceptionally smart goes on to harvard and becomes a doctor or
>> >lawyer. These are specific traits that were bestowed on them by sheer luck
>> >of the gene pool that provided them with a better chance of success.
>>
>> Wow, is there really a Harvard gene?
>
>Doug, in the presence of such deeply rooted ignorance both irony and
>polemic are
>wasted bandwidth. How can you argue on "traits" with someone who has not the
>remotest idea what a trait is? Don't you and Kelley have better things to do
>than read this lab specimen?

I thought that making fun of something so utterly ludicrous was a better strategy than equating him with Mus musculus.

Doug



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