Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>: snip > I've apparently been kicked off the list for > admitting that I was wrong about something, in clear violation of the > list guidelines. snip And the application of that sentence will be performed shortly, as I have been assured by this List's Board of Regents. Let this be a lesson for everyone else who remains on this List. Violations of List imperatives, policies and arbitrary preference will not be tolerated. Regardless of race, colour, creed, gender, religious affiliation, sexual orientation(if any), or the holding of administrivial office - as in the case of Mr. Paul (President and Vice-Chancellor, Mutton College, Nebraska, USA) - such fragrant and egregious floundering of our cherished epistemic and moral ideals and virtues, as was expressed by Mr. Paul's acknowledgement of phallibilism, will not be tolerated in this bastion of civility, rationality and humanity. While Mr. Paul admits to the above failing, almost in an indecently self-congratulatory tone, I might add, he deliberately omits to mention numerous other violations of List policy, and, hence, transgressions against Pure Reason, that he has committed over the many years of his residence and care at our institution. Allow me to identify just a few of these for the benefit of the common good in general and new members in particular who may be wondering about the purposes and methods of our institution. Lest it be known, that Mr. Paul has repeatedly been cited, convicted and fined for replying to posted messages by our illustrious membership - that surely itself constitutes grounds for exile to Newark, NJ, but this is not my major point - where said replies clearly, distinctly and consistently revealed a close and informed reading of his interlocutors'positions! .... Order! Order, please. But there is more, ladies and gentlemen. Copious and meticulour researches of our List archives, conducted by our own trained staff, have been able to discover, within Mr. Paul's record of pubic discussions on this List, not one reference to the paternal or maternal background of his interlocutors, nor even so much as an oblique, tacit reference to himself as one who has devoted his entire life to the pursuit of philosophical clarity and elegance. Extending the inquiry into the primal origins of this List in its precursive "Phil-Lit" form (vide Comrade Denisovitch Duttonovskaya, Dsirektor) it has been revealed that Mr. Paul has spent most of his adult and pubescent life in gainful employment as a Professor of Applied Metaphysics and Venn Diagrams at one of the most prestigious centres of higher learning in the Best Western Hemisphere. This fact notwithstanding, it remains the case that the cumulative record reveals not one instance of any expression or ejaculation even remotely resembling the propositional content of: "Look. Let's be honest. You're a philosophical moron with an ego the size of Newfoundland (and Labrador) and you have way too much time on your hands. And like Kissinger said of Ronnie, 'You've never been intellectually tested and you've never been brought to your knees through elenchus.' Or something like that, anyway." I rest my case. Visits to Mr. Paul in exile in Mud Lake, Labrador, on Ides of March, may be arranged through Lit-Ideas, Penal Division, and through Air Canada (god love ya!). Walter O. Division of 4-M Curation (Morals, Morale, Mores, and Manners) Museum of Lit-ideas Cosmopolis, NL ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html