On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> You moderate me for saying a phrase like this but not someone who says
> something along the lines of > "_shut up shuttin' up already
> since you're
> being a ridiculous fuckheaded bore." And similar things that she
> said to
> Ravi which chased him away?
>
> Doug I have to say that this is a very weird sense of propriety.
> But maybe
> you just agree with shag and thus impoliteness doesn't bother you
> as long it
> is not impoliteness that effects "intellectuals" of a particular
> school of
> thought.
I swear I haven't come across such a thick fog of self-righteous piety and bombast since I saw the last of Leo Casey.
Shag is funny. She's also very smart and writes a lot of great stuff. Something like what you quote doesn't bother me; you can defend yourself. I wasn't aware that she "chased" Ravi away - he never complained about it, so this is the first I've heard. But, hey, it's tough in the pros. If that were all she said, I'd be annoyed. But she says a lot more, so I'm not in the least annoyed.
But I get really tired of these chronic assertions about the silly pomos - almost always asserted as a throwaway. If you've got a beef with some actual writers, please name and quote them. Otherwise, go back to telling us why the philosophers of science have gotten it all wrong.
Doug