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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>>…</b> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Grigg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] what did we learn?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>>…"Hi BillW, filter your sources more carefully…Do you wish to feed your mind on drivel generated by those who majored in… journalism? Neither do I."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>..Dang! And here I thought people only picked on English majors! Lol <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Picked on? I have no heartburn with English majors. Many of them go into teaching, which is a most admirable aim in life. I like English majors. They cause no harm that I can see. Journalism majors on the other hand, have a scandalously disproportionate influence on society and in my opinion generally a corrosive one.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Any picking on that I do does not apply to English majors, but is sincere ridicule and scorn, specifically aimed at journalism majors. That’s not a legitimate field of study in my opinion. News should be written by scientists, technologists and engineers. There is sufficient talent there, and far greater insights.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>…<a href="https://www.prairiehome.org/story/1997/06/14/the-lives-of-english-majors.html">https://www.prairiehome.org/story/1997/06/14/the-lives-of-english-majors.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>There ya go, Garrison Keillor was an English major. He has given us so much. There’s a life well lived. He goes on about Dave Barry, the writer who influenced my style considerably, also an English major.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>