After they win...

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Dennis Breslin" <dbreslin at ctol.net>
>
> > This is certainly true.  Americans' ignorance is much connected with the
> > nation's fabulous, self-renewing, much-proclaimed sense of "innocence" 
>--
> > perhaps better defined as clinical narcissism.  Americans' will to
>ignorance
> > reminds me of the degree of stupidity that Samuel Johnson once ascribed 
>to
> > one of his nemeses:  "Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it
>must
> > have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such
>an
> > excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."
> >
> > Carl
>
>Phew, for a moment there I thought you were gonna be smug.
>
>Dennis

As the late lamented B. DeLong would say, touché.

Carl

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