[TheForge] NYT B Smithing reference

[ries]

You have never seen anyone type the word "stupid" in as relaxed a fashion as I do.
I slouch in my chair, eyes at half mast, breathing at a slow and cosmic yoga rate, and roll my eyes at about 1mph.

and 3 sentences is hardly a dissertation.

you have, as usual, attempted to shoot the messenger, rather than respond to the actual subject- the complete inanity and untruth of your "statement".

Idiocy is its own reward- and it sounds like your attitude has affected whats on your plate, as well.

I dont care if you dont like Obama.

But what does that have to do with his MOTHER?

Shoud I be bringin up YOUR mother?

It would make about as much sense.

Anyway, if Glenn Beck's mother had written a book about blacksmithing, I would refrain from discussing her son's sexual habits, and, instead, applaud her interest.

I am in favor of blacksmithing. 
I like the fact that someone wrote about rural blacksmtihs in Java, as I have been to Java, and seen first hand how hard it is for people. 
I enjoy reading about how rural smiths in third world countries do a lot with very little. 

I read the first person account of the blacksmtih she gave a grant to, and how it had changed his life. 
I think thats a great thing, completely non-political, and far from what I would consider "degenerate".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907884.ece


ries






On Apr 22, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:

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
> 
> 
> 
> 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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