Another Voice of the Reactionary Right Heard From

[Luke Benjamin Weiger]

Many thanks to James, Daniel, and Doug.  Collectively, you've served to
make my point better than my over-the-top sarcasm ever could.

-- Luke

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Daniel Davies wrote:
>
> >  --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > James Heartfield wrote:
> >>
> >>  >And this is called 'Dissent' because...?
> >>
> >>  ...they don't really want to change the world, they just want to
> >>  stand on the sidelines and offer critical advice.
> >
> >I'd always assumed it was because you only ever hear the word in the
> >context of
> >the phrase "there's dissent in the ranks".
> >
> >As in:
> >
> >"Off to bomb Kosovo?  There's 'Dissent', in the ranks".
>
> And it was also named that to prepare the ground for Woody Allen's
> joke about their merger with Commentary to form Dissentary.
>
> Doug
>