cheers.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
> Did Woody Allen's movie suggest the implicit quotation from Scott
> Fitzgerald?
>
> "... the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
> opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to
> function..." (The Crack-Up, 1936)
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> On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
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> C. G. Estabrook writes:
>>
>> It's even funnier (if that's quite the word) that there
>>> are certain soi-disant leftists who are willing to 'give
>>> a pass' to Obama to continue to kill people in AfPak
>>> because Ron Paul has funny ideas about the gold standard.
>>>
>>
>> I don't see anyone here giving a pass to Obama for his handling of the
>> economy, let alone his fascination with continuing pointless, stupid,
>> expensive, inhumane wars. Ron Paul should be ignored because he's a
>> lunatic, even if lunatics can every once in a while say something you happen
>> to agree with.
>>
>> It probably should be a test you have to take before joining lbo-talk: can
>> you hold two separate throughts in your head at once? Or do you have to
>> pick a single embodiment of all your positions simultaneously? It's not
>> Obama, for sure; but Ron Paul isn't even on the short list.
>>
>> /jordan
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