[TheForge] NYT B Smithing reference OT: POL:

[peter fels]

For pity's sake Andy..You were trolling for that reaction.
You knew your mildly amusing statement was gratuitously offensive.
Your end of the political spectrum has been spewing more maliciously
fabricated ugly shi* than i can ever recall seeing in the last few years.
Worse yet..it seems to be working quite well.


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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