Re: OFF TOPIC

[Sam Martin semartin@xxxxxxxx]

Thank you for echoing my much earlier protests to "Yo Intl" (formerly Deru
Kugi -- well the nail that sticks out gets hammered!) about his cutesy
political comments to augment the "von und zu" signature.
We now know as much as we care to about the anti-Clinton rabies of two
active participants in this list. Can't they find some Rush-Limbaugh type
list to join for letting off the steam of their religious beliefs?

My memories go back a long way. Most (all?) of you are too young to
remember the anti-Roosevelt frothing in the 1930s when FDR was accused of
most grievous sins against the Republic (and the 'publicans for which it
stood), such as the notorious attempt to pack the Supreme Court (look it
up), but nobody set a vengeful investigator to probe into his relationship
with his mistress. Nor did the press photographers reveal to the public
that they were electing a wheelchair cripple.

Times have changed and hatefulness has grown more vicious.
Let's keep it private.

	No signature; that's what the header is for.

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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Harvard Y. Bullwhocker wrote:

> As a lurker (lacking the expertise to do anything else), I greatly
> appreciate the information supplied by the frequent posters to this
> list, especially when I am able to comprehend it. I don't even
> surface anymore in occasional non-technical pique, to have my head
> snapped off by Mr. Sivin or the (regrettably absent) Mr. Binswanger.
> And if the price I must pay for continued access is the right-wing
> spew certain of the more-or-less mavens feel compelled to append to
> their Xy-comments, I will continue to be spewed upon.
>
> In fairness, though, shouldn't the overtly political comments be
> rare? Rarer, at least?
>
> Jeffrey G. Purvis
>
>