Tim May wrote:
On Monday, October 15, 2001, at 08:20 PM, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
John Young cryptically wrote:
Any message with the word kill in it needs killfiling.
How about if Tim just says, "euthanize"?
John Young's sudden squeamishness about What Needs to be Done is...typical.
He rants about CIA plots, he lists USG atrocities on his Cryptome site (kudos), he talks about the need for justice, but then he pulls back when someone points out the obvious implications of recent events. Kind of like a steak lover realizing belatedly that his food comes from the killing of cattle.
Without taking sides in your little local dispute over there, surely the better analogy would be an ox realising that his food comes from the killers of cattle? Fat systems programmer decides to refrain from half-a-dozen bad taste jokes about anthrax, cattle & sheep. But points out that the news media might have covered it better if someone had told them that anthrax is endemic in the USA and millions of people may have been exposed to enough to have antibodies. Also decides not to discuss the current literature on viable but non-culturable ("VBNC") bacteria which generally concludes that culture methods often don't give a very good indication of contamination. Googling for Rita Colwell and cholera might be informative. <walks off humming> "How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm, now that they've seen NY?"