<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>Justin:
<BR><< Leo, I'm certainly pleased to bring out the best in you. What is it about
<BR> me, I wonder, that sets you frothing? It makes you fun to bait, though.>></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
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<BR>Yes, without question, you are a master baiter. How long before you join
<BR>Carroll on the LBO-Talk injured reserve list with an hyperextended wrist? Do
<BR>you have a clause in your LBO-Talk contract that allows you to bank your
<BR>twenty a day over posts? Maybe you should see a good contract lawyer.
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<BR>Justin, again:
<BR><< I especially like how, in good Rortian fashion, you argue by description
<BR>and indivious characterization; my post is "meandering"; contorted through
<BR>"many twists and turns," but I bury at the bottom my fundamental concession
<BR>to your absolute reasonableness. >>
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<BR>I granted you too much, I guess, by assuming that you felt a need to cover
<BR>your description of my politics on matters racial as somewhere in the
<BR>vicinity of Jesse Helms with three or four obfuscatory prefaces. In good
<BR>sectarian fashion, you obviously believe that such political slander stands
<BR>on its own, and the rest was just poetry for our collective benefit. And if
<BR>it seems that you happened to end up at pretty much the same position I had
<BR>already articulated, well that obviously is a problem of using Rortian
<BR>readings. There is Truth, and you possess it.
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<BR>Justin:
<BR><< Or maybe you just don't follow my point. That wouldn't be surprising; you
<BR>often don't, but it may be my fault, so I'll briefly repeat it. >>
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<BR>Stick to the political misrepresentation and slander. It works a whole lot
<BR>better than when you play the part of an condescending professorial asshole,
<BR>and at least it has the pretense of a political argument.
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<BR>Leo Casey
<BR>United Federation of Teachers
<BR>260 Park Avenue South
<BR>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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<BR>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
<BR>It never has, and it never will.
<BR>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
<BR>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
<BR>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
<BR>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
<BR><P ALIGN=CENTER>-- Frederick Douglass --</P></FONT></HTML>