[TheForge] NYT B Smithing reference

[Andrew Vida]

For pity's sake, relax.  I made a statement.  It took no food from your 
mouth nor money from your pocket, yet you write a dissertation in 
response.  HELLO.

I've got far more unpleasant things on my plate these days, so I will 
bid you a good day.

ries wrote:
> Andy, I know you live to provoke, but even for you, thats kind of stupid.
> 
> Obama's mother wrote a dissertation on rural blacksmithing in Indonesia.
> The actual blacksmiths were helped by her- she gave gifts and grants to poor blacksmiths.
> And the scholarship she did was helpful both to anthropologists and, potentially, to blacksmiths.
> 
> Regardless of what you think of the politics of her son, what is possibly "degenerate" about either rural blacksmiths in Java, or a woman who studies them, and has been dead for quite some time?
> 
> ries
> 
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> On Apr 20, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
> 
> Every discipline has its degenerates.
> 
> peter fels wrote:
>> I was just reading an NY Times article that said,
>> that at one point Obama's mother
>> got into blacksmithing!
>>
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