Lefty despair

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Fri Sep 20 08:04:31 PDT 2002


Of course if one wanted to make the case that the so-called "left" is full humorless and self-righteous losers, one could do worse than to cite Dennis Perrin as a prime example.

Jim F.

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:58:17 -0400 Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> writes:
> > In my humble
> > opinion, it's irrational to say that "the left" is a bunch of
> > humorless and self-righteous losers, as is often said here, and to
> > still be a leftist, unless you think of yourself as a humorless
> and
> > self-righteous loser. Perhaps leftist critics of "the left"
> > automatically exempt themselves in their minds? I'm genuinely
> > perplexed.
> > --
> > Yoshie
>
> Geez Yoshie -- sometimes you sound Vulcan. Ever go bowling? Down
> some beers
> and shots? Yell at the moon?
>
> One can easily point to the downside of the left (and there are a
> fair
> number of humorless, self-righteous prigs who claim they wish to
> advance the
> species -- I've worked with them, marched with them, nearly
> strangled them
> on occasion) without donning the same straitjacket. That this rather
> simple
> concept perplexes you might serve as an alarm bell.
>
> DP
>
>
>

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