(geez, has it really been, like, eight years since anyone had anything nice to say in "Flame Off"?)
I'll say this for mmoffitt: he's wrong, utterly wrong, on many of the issues of the day, including the gay marriage/CSA battle flag debates, but by gawd, he do stick to his guns. Reason does not sway him, sarcasm does not sway him, and in the face of almost unanimous and not always kind opposition in these fora, he generally responds with more civility than I might muster in his place.
The participation of the late unlamented marlowe in these precincts, which I joined late in 2002, always aroused in me an unalloyed contempt. Of course, a Venn diagram of his worldview and mine probably would not have involved an intersection even on the subjects of Mom and Apple Pie, whereas mmoffitt and I have found points of agreement times past. More than that, though, our Confederate Commie has never, to the best of my recollection, had recourse to intellectual dishonesty (on which marlowe, of course, practically had a fucking patent) in his ripostes. However deeply the rest of us may differ with him, I hope we can all agree that IWT would be poorer absent his participation here.
cordially,
Edit: chronology
I'll say this for mmoffitt: he's wrong, utterly wrong, on many of the issues of the day, including the gay marriage/CSA battle flag debates, but by gawd, he do stick to his guns. Reason does not sway him, sarcasm does not sway him, and in the face of almost unanimous and not always kind opposition in these fora, he generally responds with more civility than I might muster in his place.
The participation of the late unlamented marlowe in these precincts, which I joined late in 2002, always aroused in me an unalloyed contempt. Of course, a Venn diagram of his worldview and mine probably would not have involved an intersection even on the subjects of Mom and Apple Pie, whereas mmoffitt and I have found points of agreement times past. More than that, though, our Confederate Commie has never, to the best of my recollection, had recourse to intellectual dishonesty (on which marlowe, of course, practically had a fucking patent) in his ripostes. However deeply the rest of us may differ with him, I hope we can all agree that IWT would be poorer absent his participation here.
cordially,
Edit: chronology