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- From: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:59:36 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <PATRICK.93Jan18195144@lampasas.is.rice.edu> patrick@lampasas.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
- >On 18 Jan 1993 12:45:03 -0600, brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) said:
- >
- >>...I've met a good number of "bible-thumpers",
- >>and I'm convinced that most of them had nothing but good intentions, and
- >>certainly didn't appear to be aspiring to power. I think it's just that
- >>the ambitious ones get many times more press....
- >
- >...and can do the most damage to their own cause in the process. Me, I've
- >always looked at it like Mencken did: if you see someone coming towards you
- >with the obvious intent of doing you good, your most prudent response is to
- >run. :-) (Not to mention the old saw about the road to hell being paved
- >with good intentions -- some of the anti-choice folks are just the least bit
- >scary precisely because of their good intentions, combined with their
- >complete ignorance of the consequences of said intentions.)
-
- No contention on that point. If you intend to run from a moron with good
- intentions, you'll have to race me, bucko. After, of course, I fling
- myself into a brick wall trying to edify the poor soul.
-
- The way I see it, good intentions are often harder to come by than the
- social equivalent of "clue", so I'll be thankful for what we have.
-
- >>>--PLH, Rice 2-0, UT 0-3...come on, January 30!
- >
- >>That was a most malicious cut on an admittedly weak point in our campus.
- >>We'll see if you get any Christmas cookies this December.
- >
- >Might as well nuke my chances for '94 as well, then -- since I wrote that,
- >it's now Rice 3-0, UT 0-4...and the 30th is less than two weeks away. Pass
- >the barbecue sauce, because Bevo's going to dinner...:-)
-
- Playing on my love of BEEF now, are ya?? Gimme that brisket!
-
- *snatch*
-
- (hey, this ain't Bevo; the meat's too tender...)
-
- Paul Brinkley
- brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- Pro-Thought Advocate, with a Touch of Humor
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-