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Saturday, November 3, 2007 12:00 AM

How Oprah ruined the marathon

America's competitive spirit has been wrecked by feel-good amateurs like Oprah whose only goal is to stagger across the finish line.

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  • Monday, November 5, 2007 05:01 AM

    all you folks were innocent of this - now you are stuck in it

    Karen M (Anonymous) and L.W.M. just swooped in to continue their global war on david sugarman onto another venue. maybe it's a mistake, but i bite back. as you see from this thread, most stuff is crap - but there are some gems. that how you read a thread. YOU ignore, you don't tell OTHERS to ignore. i've been here a long time and i've noticed, Joan, that since mandatory registration the quality of discussion declined quite a lot. for instance, we'd have really interesting no-holds-barred back and forths with Golden Boy and Le Castor, but no more. perhaps it was a coincidence - they just moved on. but i think it encouraged loud mouthed ill-witted officious cowards like Karen M and L.W.M (no, Karen that's not "scatalogical" - that's ad hominem, like you did to me). there's another point that i'd like to address. i post a LOT. this is true. you can't have a *dialog* if you send an opinion down like a prophesy, you need to TALK. but perhaps they don't like conversation - simply aren't used to it. i think if i stop posting you can just get back to stating opinion. it's not as good as a dialog, but it's a lot better than this.

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