On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:27:25PM -0800, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: [snip discussion on Brustian politics] > > And yet he is loathe to discuss them, because he admits to turning > > into an asshole when he does. If he shows such admirable restraint on > > a topic which he holds so closely and dearly, i think so should we all. > I think this forum is sufficiently worshipful to avoid provoking him (for > example I have to resist the impulse to capitalize the second pronoun > above) but whatever. Depends on what you mean by provocation. I'd be glad to discuss politics, even with a communist, but as libertarian the odds of the discussion being "worshipful" are... ah... let's say "low". Very low. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp