On 26 Sep 2005 03:08:04 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Sun 25 Sep 2005 05:41:09p, modom wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:23:56 -0700, Denny Wheeler

>> It is my contention that any claim to validity to be conjured with
>> regard to that screed presumes a white norm, arrogates for itself a
>> racist pseudo objectivity that only contributes more to the social
>> structures that lead to this debacle, this national shame. Our nation
>> must not treat its citizens this way.
>>>
>>>Remember though that for the media, it's almost always about eyeballs
>>>in front of sets, and trying to get the most of those they can. Yes,
>>>there are occasional exceptions to that rule (just as there's
>>>occasionally a politician whose #1 priority is something other than
>>>re-election), but they ARE exceptions.
>
>What a lot of pseudo-elevated drivel.

Hey, that second paragraph above is mine. And what's pseudo-elevated
about it?
(I was going to say something similar about "modom"'s
pseudointellectual BS)

>>>Maybe in a few years you'll have some life-experience on which to make
>>>these judgments. You clearly don't, now.
>>
>> Honey, I've had lots of life experiences, and the rhetorical move you
>> just attempted is called an ad hominem, a fallacious pseudo argument
>> equivalent to calling me ugly. That is to say it's childish.

Well, no. That's not ad hominem, sweetcakes. Simply descriptive of
your obvious naivete. <shrug> Not my problem.

>Apparently not enought of those lief experiences.
>
>You're as much off-base and out of line as the OP.

More so, imo.
--
-denny-

"I don't like it when a whole state starts
acting like a marital aid."
"John R. Campbell" in a Usenet post.