TAKE THAT! You mean ole rightist, you! I'm still here. NYAH, NYAH!
Seriously now, Bill, I just ran across your post, which apparently is meant as a reference to me personally.
I've long held that once a leftist goes silent, said leftist has run out of valid points to add to the discussion.
Leftist, hmm? Ah, as in the words of J. Alfred Prufrock, I have known..
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
I will try to spit out a butt-end or two, anyway.
If I ever "go silent" on this or any similar SI thread, it will be for one of two reasons, or for a combination of both:
1) I will finally see that all this posting is keeping me from attending to my own work, and will resolve to wean myself from an addiction that is worse than salted peanuts; and
2) I will conclude that it is useless to try to bridge the "ideological gap" that clearly exists here, and that mutual understanding, let alone consensus, is impossible.
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