> This is a recurringly amazing chestnut. But what's really amazing is
> that that the portion holding these views has gone substantially *up
> in the past two months* -- when the refutations have been as total
> and official and well publicized as it is imaginable for them to be
> (the 9/11 Commission report, which astonishingly became a best
> seller, and the Duelfer Report, which received enormous coverage
> just a second ago); and when even the Administration has been
> forced, on the surface, it seemed, to say uncle. It's not that the
press
> hasn't been able to make headway against the original lies. It's that
> lies are still making headway and persuading new converts.
Carrol Cox wrote:
> Let's translate this into actuality. Roughly half the adult
> population votes. Roughly half of them ar Bush supporters.
> So what we have above is roughly 3/4 of 1/4 of the population.
> Why are you so concerned with them? This list reads more like
> the sports pages than a list devoted to political/cultural analysis.
> If our left fielder can get his average up just a few points; if we
> can fix that weakness at left defensive guard; if ...., then maybe
> we can ...."
So why are you among the most active participants? Why return daily to such a profound disappointment?
-- Shane -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20041023/c0767a91/attachment.htm>