On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:57:26 -0400
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Peter Ward wrote:
>>> That's it: time to send in the bombers.
>>
>> Are you an asshole, or do you just do a good imitation of one?
>
> I'm with Comrade Ward here, asshole or not.
>
> One suspects very strongly that this is a factoid, to
> put it mildly. It seems highly unlikely that Khamenei
> really wants to do away with all music altogether. A
> detached quotelet via Hamid Dabashi -- well. One will wait
> for fuller information.
A vulgar anti-imperialism can excuse anything, can't it?
No one - Dabashi or me - is advocating a bombing run, you know.