Another oddly moralistic-sounding statement.
--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 4:56 PM
> When posters to lbo speak of "defending"
> newspapers it reminds me of
> what (if I remember correctly from about60 years ago) in
> either pool or
> bowling they call English: one twists one's bod to make
> the ball go in
> the direction one desires. To think that anything said on
> this list or
> wished (for or against) the "the future of
> newspapers" has anything
> whatever to do with that future is sillier than
> "putting English" on the
> cue ball: at least that adds to the fun; this just makes
> tghe brave but
> puny and irrelevant defenders of the press look sort of
> foolish.
>
> Carrol
>
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