Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 07:14:05 -0500
From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com>
Subject: PLC: Re: They're Out To Get Us


Denis Dutton forwarded:

>Washington Post, 9 November 1997
>
>"They're Out To Get Us"
>
>                    reviewed by Jonathan Yardley
>
>                    CONSPIRACY
>
>                    How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and
>                    Where It Comes From
>
>                    by Daniel Pipes

While Denis has honorably, if unbelieveably, dissociated himself 
from his forwards, I wonder if this one is not a brazen metacommentary 
about the recent wrestling on this federation, an angling for leverage 
extra-meta-ly on Meta-PL?

If so, if not, well done, unfair's fair in the Bad Lip contest.

Coda: Yardley's final para of the review gets it right, though, 
Pipes' P style is unavoidable in fading brain waves/particles,
the dying genes screaming that G is out to snuff the spark-arc
forever. Get a life, got it, now it's gone, poof.

Pray for grace and mercy, hah, the ultimate Bad Writhing!

Meta Coda: Pipes and The Washington Post, among many
in the phil-lit racket, would have no future without conspiracy 
theories, the badder written, documented, authenticated,
sworn to, the better. What else is culture but a vainglorious
evasion from certain doom foretold in the mirror, confirmed
in aches and pains and evil thoughts of revenge and 
supremacy?

That's a joke, unconscious.



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