[Vision2020] love letters or a desperate cry for attention?

[g. crabtree]

My Dearest Bertha, 

I get that you aren't interested in contributing to the discussion.

I get that you are not swayed by my suave good looks and worldly charm.

I get that my powerful intellect and rapier wit bounce off you seemingly unnoticed.

In fact, I am coming to believe that you imagine you don't really care for me at all. (wink, wink)

All of these things I can understand.

What I can't understand is why you are frightened of me.

The waifish Ms. Lund delights in spitting in my eye.

The diminutive Ms. Mix gleefully reads me the riot act.

The delicate Ms. Hovey never hesitates to point out my failings as she sees them.

And all of them do it over their very own real life names.

What could I have done to scare you into hiding?

Many of my most vocal critics on this forum have actually spoken with me face to face and emerged none the worse for wear.

What could I have done to cause you to cower so?

What horror could I have inflicted on you that leaves you with no recourse but to hurl pitifully weak epithets from the safe harbor of anonymity?

Or could it be that you simply yearn to be noticed? 


g
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gray Tree Crab aka Big Bertha 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:17 AM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram


  The village locksmith said:



  "My goodness isn't the nascent little ambulance chaser cute when he gets all up on his hind legs and brays about how others should be ashamed?

  The reason that I don't "defend torture" is because that  I see no compelling need to. As I've said before, I do not believe that waterboarding is torture, I do not believe that the previous administration had a policy promoting the use of torture, and  I don't think that your pretending to be the arbiter of all that is righteous, pure and holy necessitates my responding to every idle quack and query that's directed my way. 

  Now how's about you knock it off with the phony shame routine and save it for closing arguments in kiddy court alright?"


  Before anyone criticizes the lonely locksmith over this only apparently puerile outburst, they need to understand the pressure he is under.

  His business is so busy that he is constantly on edge.  In fact, it is so busy that he may have to expand into the next door laundromat.  As one of the area's leading entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial philosophers, he is to be cheered for his daring and incisive business acumen in these hard times.

  He is our leader.  Cut him some slack if he seems irrational and childish.  He is going where few dare to go.




  -- 
  Gray Tree Crab aka "Big Bertha"



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