<DIV>Now you are misreading me too. I said I was amazed that <EM>I</EM> couldn't get a tenured job when someone like like Brad could. I certainly come up to <EM>his</EM> standards. As for illiteracy, he's repeatedly done this before. I assume, I hope, he's better in his professional work. And yoiu know as well as I the mechansims that alert people to defects of positions they oppose more than to those they support, that's whyw e have an adversary system of justice. But me, I plead not guilty. I'm pretty ruthless on my side too, as you have had ample opportunity to see. jks<BR><BR><B><I>Luke Weiger <lweiger@umich.edu></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV>Justin wrote:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>> I don't blame political differences on the factors you name. But I do hold people responsible </DIV> <DIV>> for failing to read or understand plain prose, for dodging important hard questions without </DIV> <DIV>> even acknowledging that they are real an important, for willfully misrepresenting other's </DIV> <DIV>> positions, and for slanderous attacks and sanctimonious claptrap.  jks</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two points and then I'm done with this discussion:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Brad did give a tendentious misreading to what you wrote.  I don't think that's evidence enough that he's an illiterate piece of excrement that doesn't deserve tenure from a decent school.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) One of the things I've observed in my relatively short (about a decade long) politically aware life is that, oddly enough, it almost always seems to be one's political opponents (and not one's allies) that engage in all the shady practices you outlined.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<br> <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/search/mailsig/*http://search.yahoo.com">The New Yahoo! Search</a> - Faster. Easier. Bingo.