----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Brust" <skzb at dreamcafe.com> To: "Baralier" <baralier at optusnet.com.au>; <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:21 PM Subject: Re: Impeach George W. Bush > At 03:04 PM 3/20/2003 +1100, Baralier wrote: > >Maybe I'm the only one to find the double standard in this group's > >willingness to bag the shit out of some-one's religious beliefs for days on > >end but as soon as a political message appears posts start flying around > >about how inappropriate that type of message is. > > I didn't see it as a double-standard. The objection was to the > spamming. The spamming was a regrettable error. A sincere apology > followed the regrettable error. Inevitable misunderstandings followed the > sincere apology which followed the regrettable error. Cold hostility grew > from the inevitable misunderstandings that followed the sincere apology > that followed the regrettable error. > > If that isn't politics, what is? > You forgot the tolerably warm discussion at dawn following the cold hostility ;-)