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Lyndon:
Yes - the academic and profile in courage for standing up to the bully-boy libel action of David Irving. My only excuse is that it's Friday afternoon, and my brain is already powering down until the RSC's Seagull on Sunday. Without Ian McKellen, but never mind: Chekhov, one of the great theatre companies in the English-speaking world, damn fine seats. Must not bitch.
Andrew:
Yes I did, and it is funny - but would be much more amusing if I didn't think we've only just begun, especially i f there's still a double digit poll gap going into the Christmas recess. Then, I suspect, you can expect 2008 to be a year that will make the 2005 campaign and the later spasm of cross-party panty sniffing look genteel by comparison. I really, really want to be proven wrong.
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Must not bitch
Wellington was hopelessly spoiled - they cancelled the non-Ian Seagull for and extra Ian Lear.
I keep thinking I should write them up even after all this time. Anyway, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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You might enjoy this article, Craig. it's a conversation with Deborah Lipstadt and a couple of other people, on Holocaust denial.
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*swoon* I would so turn straight for that woman... and what a delightfully eloquent and thoughtful symposium - not least for the mutually respectful and civil tone when differences arose. Thanks for the link, Deborah.
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Unless you're just doing it because you're bored, he's not actually worth arguing with, because when confronted with his own fabrication or foolishness, he simply convinces himself of the next thing.
My experience was that he doesn't argue at all. He just makes personal attacks. That's in his works and his responses to criticism.
The only thing of interest about the views of Wishart is that they are somehow published in glossy form without running a loss. It seems like business model is that Investigate is really a circular and it sells advertising. It could probably sell a lot more if it didn't include whack views every second page, but it's Wishart's soapbox and he's allowed to pay opportunity costs to stand on it.
Heh, Danyl, it looks like Ian's rewritten the entire book just in the comments field. I'm tempted to find out why he thinks moral relativism has brought the West down, but I know it's just a teaser with no substance the way 100% of the articles I've ever wasted 5 minutes of my life in the doctor's waiting room reading have turned out to be. He'll have a specialist definition of moral relativism which will probably turn out to be equivalent with socialism, which is in turn equivalent with Nazism, which is in turn equivalent to Islam, and run by queers.
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Mark,
"Tamihere's support coming, as you might expect, from angry conservatives." I read through all the comments and couldn't see any support from "angry conservatives".
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What if I'm both bored and masochistic?
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Ryan, you are! But trolling Wishart is very tempting, I can see that.
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Well, I've had a few interesting discussions there. It's good to occasionally engage with people who utterly disagree with you on almost everything.
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What if I'm both bored and masochistic?
Ever seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_jourl|__Belle de Jour]], Ryan? You're way hotter than Catherine Deneuve. :)
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What if I'm both bored and masochistic?
Ever seen __Belle de Jour__, Ryan? You're way hotter than Catherine Deneuve, though you're going to have to work on the whole Gallic ice queen/lesbian icon look. :)
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Thanks for the link, Deborah.
Its from Butterflies and Wheels, my favourite aggregator site. I recommend it.
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Well, I've had a few interesting discussions there. It's good to occasionally engage with people who utterly disagree with you on almost everything.
Yup, although I draw the line on them disagreeing about the value of using rationality and courtesy.
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