People will come around and eventually see Obama as "dangerously black" and that will sink him.

You just don't know. No one does. Not yet.

Anonymust...

"...he does not suffer fools gladly."

Oh, thanks; that's been my problem with him.

-- omooex

Fools and Idiots

One can act a fool and not be a fool. Don't you read Shakespeare? I don't either.

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

William Blake

FOLLY, n.

That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

FOOL, n.

A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting -- such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.

IDIOT, n.

A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

A.B.

It's not quite like that, no RW blast faxes.

omooex is, if he's to be believed, and I believe him, part Colombian and part Palestinian. He's not a winger.

Watch the sigs, m'kay? I was talking to "odog11" there, not "omooex". Different dust-up (and I think mine with "omooex" was resolved [or adjourned] amicably).

Cheers,

A dof of my hat to you sir.

Close enough. Literature, philology and philosophy. Degree in German, although I began with Chemical Engineering (1961, Sputnik, catch up to the Russkis) and ended with love (Das ewig Weibliche.) Career as a cataloger and library systems guy. (All data is verkakte data in my book.)

Might one enquire similarly about Your Mysteriousness? (Forgive the lèse majesté.)

Watch the sigs, m'kay? I was talking to "odog11" there, not "omooex". Different dust-up (and I think mine with "omooex" was resolved [or adjourned] amicably).

Cheers,

-- Arne Langsetmo

Odog is a stone cold racist.

Taking people's comments out of context to imply that they are lying, stupid, hypocritical or whatever is something of an art around here. Good work.

My point was that misrepresenting someone's viewpoints gets everyone talking about stupid things. And what's the point? So you can please yourself with games of gotcha, ala Tim Russert?

But having said that, I will now distance myself from this thread. And bid everyone adieu.

Might one enquire similarly about Your Mysteriousness? (Forgive the lèse majesté.)

-- William Timberman

I pretty much dropped out of high school in the ninth grade. I hated math. I took my SATs while on two hits of fine Owsley acid. I scored 695 on the verbals as a result. I went back to college later in life and majored in CJ. That's all I'm at liberty to say. It sounds like a story, doesn't it? You know what a kidder I can be.

OK, and I know I am speaking for everyone here.....You are so right. What an epiphany we have all experienced today. We cannot thank you enough for your profound insight.

We will all be voting for Bomb McCain now.

Sir: with all respect, just because something seems to be gibberish to you does not mean that it is. There are many things in my life I have thought to be nonsense that I have later come to see have meaning. Though I disagree with many things you say, I do not wish to demean you. When I find something to be "gibbiresh" I often find myself wondering if something is wrong with me. I have read Mr. Celery for many months now and he has helped me in many ways by what he says. When I find what he says to be incomprehensible I take it that I perhaps do not understand.

A buddhist bow to you, sir.

-- Jkalos

I did not think it necessary to point out to celery (or his other handles) that the bebop style is gibberish to just me. I think he knows that. There are many who like his stuff and get much from it. Some of us get more than pleasantries or wisdom mixed in there; we get nasty little shots.

I agree that a story that does not contain at least three levels of meaning is not a well done teaching story; but celery says nothing so far that I find much meaning in --- but others may find much.

May we all look for enlightenment; may some of us find it.

Taking people's comments out of context to imply that they are lying, stupid, hypocritical or whatever is something of an art around here. Good work.

I didn't "take" your comments out of context. I did go from the comment someone else took from where ever. I did not research it for context and background because it was light hearted pranksterism. You do have a chip, we all do. I've said I find you to be sincere and have defended you on that account. I was teasing you a bit, mostly out of boredom. You are an okay fellow, a bit young with some pronounced biases of your own. You and I have been round and round about this over McCain and his "confession". That's taking statements out of context. You don't want to confront that.