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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (92629)	1/5/2005 7:24:11 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I place people on ignore primarily to avoid personal messages, and secondarily to avoid saying anything that might even be construed as unpleasant- as you have in the past construed snipes where there were none. You have said you are a puddle jumper- this has nothing to do with you and me- I was actually thinking of you and Kholt and a long protracted conversation you had with her about what you do on line. I know that Cos would not enjoy being splashed. I thought about telling him in private- but I try not to do anything in private anymore because of all the suspicion I have read in certain ...ahem...posts, that I am somehow controlling people with PM's- I'm not. I don't want to secretly control people and I have no interest in it. So I made a choice to say it up front. There is obviously no correct way to do it. I made my choice, and I'm happy with it, but if it caused you any pain that was not intentional. I take full responsibility for telling Cos he might not enjoy your style. I think I am probably right about that. I have no idea if this message to you was a good idea though, so I'm done, last word, or words, is/are yours.

To: one_less who wrote (92629)	1/5/2005 8:47:42 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I just bought this book "The Counsels of Cormac" an Ancient Guide to Irish Leadership (oh brother!) translated by Thomas Cleary. I should have bought the new biography on Lucrezia Borgia after reading this review. "Cleary, a translator of Sun-Tzu’s leadership chestnut The Art of War, goes Gaelic with this ancient compendium of homiletic drivel. The text, attributed to the legendary high king of pagan Ireland, Cormac MacAirt, offers Cormac’s advice on character formation and is randomly interspersed with a motley of folk wisdom. Cormac’s thoughts on statesmanship and moral virtue tend toward unarguable but unactionable injunctions on the necessity of "Destroying every evil" and "Bringing about every good." He gets more specific when he turns to deportment ("Don’t be quarrelsome, so you don’t get your head broken"); weather interpretation ("snow is father to bacon/ wet is portent of feud"); health (a list of "What is worst for the human body" includes "heavy lifting," "dry food" and "swimming after eating one’s fill") and high society ("A sophisticate is liberal/ A satirist is poison/ Artistic women are sweet-mouthed"). Much of the material pertains to the king’s role in settling legal disputes, which seems to have given Cormac no end of headaches; his injunctions against "a flimsy, slow, prolix plea," "an empty, venting suit," the "seventeen characteristics of bad argumentation" and "swearing after judgment is pronounced" have the unmistakable tone of a weary jurist exasperated by bickering litigants. When it comes to business management, a few of Cormac’s thoughts—on the topics of corporate meetings ("arranging the seating" and "brevity of storytelling" are crucial) and outside consultants ("Don’t let an unlucky man be your chief adviser")—might be of interest to the Irish-American MBAs for whom this edition is obviously intended."