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• Monday, October 6, 2008 01:25 PM

  To Jim M. and others: Bill T. and LWM

  Thanks Jim for stating what I have felt myself since discovering Bill T. and LWM stopped posting here. I'm only up to page 27 so others may have already stated it but if not, well, there it is.

  Personally I see a real strain of Ron Paulists and Libertarians - you know, the only ones who know and understand how to fix our government and society in general - coming in to this section of Salon.com. And I think it is great! With Bucky going to the big Libertarian seating section in the sky we need some fresh blood for the endless battles between the realists (Bill & LWM) and the loony toon brigade (Libertarians and Ron Paulists)

  You can tell where I stand!

  One thing that always puzzled me: How it is that Bill T. got such a bad rap around here! As you mentioned, a finer gentleman and wonderful writer one would be hard pressed to find.

  LWM, well, he always did play up his Harlan Ellison side - ie didn't suffer fools and assholes easily. BUT his posts were very often funny and full of really interesting and cool links. And as always, if you didn't like his posts, scroll over them for god sakes!

  Sometimes I think many, many people don't have a clue what discussions were like on the 'net prior to the advent of the web, back when UseNet was the place to be. They should visit Google groups or the way back machine and peruse some of those.

  They might learn something and not be so damn sensitive.

  —KB4Hire Read KB4Hire's other letters
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