[lit-ideas] Re: Death of a Thinker
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:11:20 -0500
Semul the Barbarian
Semul, Laknar, and Frisch
14 Rubber Beltway
Saginaw, MI
Detlof Baader
People For Free Technology (PFFT)
Toronto, ON
Dear Mr. Baader:
It was with hilarity bordering on amusement that we reviewed your recent
missive, or should I say, your hackneyed outlaw polemic. Your
contralegal assertion that, “It is the right of any individual to do
whatever he/she/it wants to do with a thread,” raised more than a few
single-eyebrows on battle-scarred faces here. Perhaps you should
consider a standup nightclub act. Certainly that career option would
serve you better than acting as the unauthorized representative of Mr.
Enns, whose precarious fortunes you choose to lend your brassy voice to,
in disregard of precedent, such as the aforementioned Myers v. Fluffy
the Clown.
Threads are property, Detlof, no matter what you and the rest of your
gang say. Mr. Stone is fully justified in seeking the counsel of our
firm and obtaining any redress of grievances provided by law.
As Harley Sorensen says in “Lies, Damned Lies And Rice,” which can be
found at http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/sorensen/, “The lies never
stop. They lie not only to you and me, but also to their friends and
colleagues, Republicans as well as Democrats. I speak (as you might
guess) of those masters of deceit in the Bush administration. A few
months ago they told our senators and representatives that their bogus
Medicare prescription drug bill would cost $400 billion over the next 10
years. Now that the bill has become law, they've revised their estimate:
Now it's $724 billion.”
The LA Times puts it differently in
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-econ15feb15,0,5291036.story?coll=la-home-headlines:
Economy's Growing, but Where Are the New Jobs? Firms are expanding
without hiring. Some analysts wonder if this change is permanent.
I hope the prospect of war maces dampens your need to harass our client.
Sincerely,
Semul the Barbarian
Semul, Laknar, and Frisch
PS: As George Monbiot wrote in “Mocking our dreams,” at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1414894,00.html,
“The reality of climate change is that the engines of progress have
merely accelerated our rush to the brink.”
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