[ExI] L'Affaire Bradbury

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Tue Apr 7 18:51:05 UTC 2009


At 01:30 AM 4/7/2009 -0700, Lee wrote:

>>Sorry, but it doesn't matter if you are rational and logically
>>correct, you still lose the discussion.
>
>Never in my life have I seen such a prima facie collapse of
>the opposition to one of my arguments. I could have scarcely
>imagined before reading your email here that someone would
>have the nerve to admit that logically and rationally they
>were all wet, and that they had to concede the discussion
>on rational and logical grounds, but that nonetheless their
>side "had to prevail" because of... because of... because
>[in essense] because they were right.

<judiciously, stroking beard:>

Hmm, there's much in what you say, Lee. Let us reason together, as 
Richard Nixon once memorably said. Meanwhile, take a look at this 
(from the NYT's tame conservative columnist):

<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html?_r=1&th&emc=th>

Damien Broderick





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