[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet

[MarshaV]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Kulp" <RKulp at ebwalshinc.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet


> Ian:
> Whoa ... Marsha, Margaret ... Ron et al
>
> Ian is very "impressed" with Nagarjuna, Ian does indeed have
> "middle-way" tattoo'ed on his buttocks, and "excluded-middle"
> imprinted any-which-way you slice me .....
>
> I used that phrase - quoting Ron's words - AGAINST those who see all
> this rational objective rigour as the goal of our critical analysis -
> was using it to contrast DMB's claims for rigour againts my (sic)
> "drivel" in this case. It's the meme I have been railing against since
> long before I even read ZMM, or anything remotely philosophical.
>
> Ron:
> Ian, Marsha,
> I think Margaret was making a funny. Grasping for concrete meaning
> and objective rigor, I think (because I have a penchant for bathroom
> humor)
> she was alluding to us males "wrestling with our manhood"
> you know "roughing up the suspect" "flaying the fox" "punching the
> clown"
>
> Lighten up people!
>
> -Ron
>

Ron,

Sorry, but I've never been privy to such humor.  I am embarrassed, but 
there's no way I could have gotten the joke.

Marsha