OT: Al Franken

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Webb

Politics in England is certainly two-dimensional like that. We have
significant political people that can easily be placed in one of each of
the four quadrants.

 

I read in sci.electronics.design that R. Steve Walz <>

Of course, Your Holiness.

How do you manage to achieve this mix of good, insightful sense and
arrant nonsense? Is it a gift or did you have special training?

 

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson

What does that word 'TORY' mean to an American? Something different from
'a member of the British Conservative Party', I feel sure.

 

Conservatives in Canada and Australia too- definitely the "right" end
of the political spectrum despite the Canadian variety calling
themselves "Progressive Conservatives". Probably related to that
insurgency that was going on there some years back. They didn't like
"Loyalists" or "Tories". The other side (Liberal) here would be the
"Grits", which is unrelated to US (hominy) grits, AFAIK.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

Natural selection favors cowardice- the brave are killed off in wars.
Scientific experiments have been conducted on mice that prove cowardice
is an inherited trait- switching offspring between bold mice and timid
mice at birth allowing the bold/timid to raise the timid/bold, and
mixing/matching bold/timid pairs, the offspring exhibit their
statistical biological traits regardless. Surveys show that in times of
scarcity, the bold population dwindles, killed off by predators while
recklessly foraging ever further from protection in search of food, and
the timid mice just get skinny but mostly survive. In the human domain-
the cowards do not participate in fighting- so they either enjoy the
privileges won for them by the brave or survive in slavery- either way
they keep on breeding.

 

I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs <>

I'd like to argue strongly against that, but I don't dare to. (;-)

So, for world peace, we need to identify the boldness gene and eradicate
it?

 

During the Revolutionary War, British supporters/cowards were labeled
Tory.

...Jim Thompson

 

For world peace, we need to identify the stupidity gene and eradicate
that. The bold are more victims of war more than instigators. This most
recent war was started by the non-bold to be sure.

 

I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs <>

But has anyone done any experiments on mice to show that there is such a
gene?

That may well be true now, although it wasn't in the past.

There's 'bold' and 'bold'.

 

Maybe avian DNA investigations can isolate the chickenhawk gene.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

For those who don't know:

doctrinaire - adj. dogmatic, or fanatical about another's
acceptance of one's theories or teaching.

dogma - n. that which is held as an opinion; esp.
a definite Tenet.

dogmatic - adj. of, or pertaining to dogma.

fanatic - adj. Governed or produced by too great zeal.
excessively enthusiastic, esp. on religious
subjects.

fanatical - adj. fanatic.

Tenet - n. Any principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine,
held as true, esp. by an organization. SYN.
see doctrine.

The below should make more sense now.

-Chuck Harris

 

That the British supporters were labeled Tory is indisputable. That
they were cowards, is in the eyes of the beholder. To the British, they
were heroes, to the newly founded Americans, they were beneath contempt.

-Chuck Harris

 

In John Larkin typed:

But she (Coulter) defends McCarthy. She also said once (maybe in '96)
that she'd vote for either Forbes or Buchanan. I was a Forbes delegate,
and I see no similarity. They were more different than any other two
candidates, so it seems that she just wanted a political outsider
regardless of what he thinks. She's intellectually shallow.

 

In John Larkin typed:

And Paglia was opposed to Anita Hill. She's a truly tough woman,
whereas most feminists are the passive-aggressive kind that would turn
on the waterworks when it served their purpose.

 

God, I wish I'd said that... and I probably will

 

Whenever I want a quick laugh I listen to somebody who listens to Rush.

 

In Fred Bloggs typed:

So which gene is dominant?

 

Please don't besmurch the name of that noble breakfast (and around
here, occasionally, dinner) food.

Anybody wany my recipe for fried grits?

John

 

There were revolutionaries and loyalists in the Revolutionary War, but
few cowards.

John