Lenin today

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Sun Mar 24 11:02:20 PST 2002


Greg:
>I was struck in how people from the right to conservative were Peter Pans >intellectually. I do not
mean for the longing always of "how it was" but deeper. It is if >their vital social opinions became stuck in the early teenage years and they never >grew out of them.

However, isn't it common for people, usually intellectuals, to become more conservative as they get older. There's the old quip about a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. Does this hold true in Australia or, like the direction of water going down a drain, is it the reverse? I think you're on to something with the emotional immaturity of conservative, although there are some immature lefties in evidence on this list.


>Many years later I was reminded of their venom when I was invited on Laura
>Ingraham's radio show to plug my sports book. She asked me what I thought of
>the WNBA. I said that while I recognized it was largely a marketing ploy by
>the NBA aimed at young women (an untapped pro-sports market), it had evolved
>into something unique, and one could see the way the game used to be played
>by men 30-40 years ago -- emphasis on passing and passing lanes, ball
>control skills, shooting percentage, etc. Ingraham began shouting "LIAR!
>LIAR!" I thought she was kidding, but she was not. She wanted me to trash
>"that girls league" and I found something of merit instead. So, she screamed
>at me.

Sorta like pradeep and Hakki, no?

Peter (cowering in defensive, fetal position)



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