tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post863698747361689034..comments2023-10-17T22:56:42.784-04:00Comments on Only in The Republic of Amherst: Bomb the Bully?Larry Kelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-30144485121566417122008-04-04T09:25:00.000-04:002008-04-04T09:25:00.000-04:00Yeah, I guess maybe I gotta stop doing those littl...Yeah, I guess maybe I gotta stop doing those little turnarounds in the last paragraph (habit I picked up from Rod Serling). Got an email last night from a Sensible Center type (who politically benefited by the Bully endorsements but also let his wife bully him into boycotting my club) who sarcastically suggested, “People who live in glass houses should dress in the basement. “<BR/><BR/>I’m certain there was no conspiracy on the part of the editors for last week’s Amherst Bulletin fiasco. Remember six months ago on the anniversary of THAT awful day and the Gazette runs with a banner headline about a Umass professor (brilliant in her field) who thinks 9/11 was an inside job?<BR/><BR/>Editor Foudy actually in that instance came close to apologizing and explaining.<BR/><BR/>I’m actually trying to have it both ways of course. Suggesting things I would never do or even now condone others do (at least in this particular instance anyway) but at the same time sending the message that if they ever do engage in outright conspiracy the Dogs of War will be on their butts. <BR/><BR/>Ask any NTSB investigator and they will verify it’s almost never just one major malfunction that brings down a commercial jet (non-hijacked of course) it is a confluence of screw ups, and malfunctions usually involving human error, that occur and combine at precisely the worst possible moment. <BR/><BR/>So to answer your question, let me serenade the editors in question: “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together"<BR/><BR/>He Ping.Larry Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-56246400597161961202008-04-04T08:03:00.000-04:002008-04-04T08:03:00.000-04:00"Fair enough…I guess. It’s one thing to suddenly d..."Fair enough…I guess. It’s one thing to suddenly decide you don’t like something a business owner has done (even though it has nothing to do with the business itself) and decide not to continue patronage.<BR/><BR/>But it’s another thing altogether to wage psychological warfare as punishment over daring to invoke my First Amendment rights."<BR/><BR/>Now you're just confusing me, Larry. Which one is you -- and which one is the editor of the Bulletin?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01414292362638985561noreply@blogger.com