Kill Killfile

[Ken Brown]

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?"