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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (23836)	4/7/2002 11:31:09 PM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 281500

just the ones who are stupid, or ignorant, or self-righteous, or hypocritical, or who slander good people. tb@whichIguesswouldmakeitonly97%.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (23836)	4/7/2002 11:46:07 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

look, it's not just bile, I have reasons! It's one thing for bloggers, or message board posters like ourselves, to mouth off on everything under the sun--it's a free country, no one has to listen, and no one takes us seriously. But most pundits make their living offering strong opinions on things they really have no place discussing in public. The proliferation of bloviating columnists or tv commentators who have no real qualifications and yet put themselves forward as authorities--on everything from military strategy to foreign policy to the price of tea in China--really gets my goat. If I were the editor of an op-ed page, I would do one of two things. Either I'd have no columnists at all, filling the space with independent new material every day, or I'd have maybe 50 of them, each writing only once a month. Either way you'd end up with a wider range of more interesting stuff, and the class of professional blowhards would be eliminated at one blow. tb@someonepleasemakemeking.com