[lit-ideas] Re: Which Doctor's Excuse?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:51:25 -0400
I guess you don't like Gandhi. But can you please stop spitting? You'll
short out my computer. How about petunias? You like petunias?
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/8/2006 9:30:41 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Which Doctor's Excuse?
>
> >>Blaming lawyers is a red herring.
>
> It's easy to agree with almost everything Irene wrote in her
> last post except this. Blaming lawyers is not a "red
> herring," i.e., a sudden diversion created by placing a
> colorful plate of artfully-arranged dried and smoked herring
> in front of one's interlocutor. No. Blaming lawyers is a
> tried and true activity, which carries the force and majesty
> of the great religions. If Gandhi had blamed lawyers more
> often, he wouldn't today be considered such a schmuck by the
> vast majority of womankind. Alexander the Great, now that
> was a lawyer-blamer's lawyer blamer, a real mensch who knew
> how to dispense with lawyers and legalism by one stroke of
> his anti-Gordian sword. Gandhi was a filthy person ...
> [spits] ... and I shall speak of him no more.
>
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