Al Franken...is this for real?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by richlevy

I knew that sooner or later he'd drop the depth charge. Unfortunately, it's a little late to rig for silent running.

Every time I try to jump in and find the depth in any of UG's arguments, it's like trying to dive into a wet handkerchief.

Rich, you just pretend to yourself that I have no depth all you like, and of course I'll get to laugh at both your pretenses and the incontinent manner in which you screw yourself out of understanding or enlightenment.

I perhaps shouldn't laugh, but what can I do when you're being so ridiculously thick? I'd like you to impress me, but I'm still waiting. Believe me, your philosophy of life, of how things should be, doesn't impress me much. It wouldn't impress anyone who thinks, not so far.

My thinking is a reproach to yours. You've never had an idea I'd've wanted to adopt, AFAIK, or the ability to defend it. Have you ever said anything to me except to disparage and disagree with my thinking -- without once displaying a sound philosophical underpinning for your objections? I hear you objecting, but nary a genuine reason why you would. Just falsities, excuses, or fatuity.

Not being attached to these things, I'm just not as far leftleaning as yourself. The Left's stupidity and its tropism to fatuous totalitarian-sympathizing made its impression on me starting at nine years old, and the Left has never stopped being stupid since. I don't think it's me, Rich. I just think there are a lot of synapses out there that don't close.

It is a sad and horrible thing to see a man so bound and determined to lie to himself every frigging time he meets up with me. Gives me a most regrettable impression of what his mind must be like.