>I recall - I don't have the energy to read through 95 posts or
>whatever the fuck it is - what set Jesse off was my comment that
>while I admired Ellen she was a rather difficult person. Which is
>incontrovertibly true. How does that compare to some of the comments
>I've read about Hitchens today, which included celebrations of his death?
You're right. And you only have to read the very first of those 90+ posts to find that out:
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-November/022227.html
>On Nov 9, 2006, at 8:07 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
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>
> > the alleged disrespect of Ellen Willis
>
>Weirdly, Jesse ignored the praise and only saw the criticism. Pretty
>funny to impose this sanctimonious standard on someone who was as
>ruthlessly critical as she.
>
>Doug