Brad, the Cliff Notes statement was wrong, but I thought that you jumped
it up a couple of notches.
> 
> >Brad DeLong wrote:
> >
> >>  Bullshit. You meant it as a personal attack.
> >
> >Brad, this is a bit over the top.  He merely said that you commented on
> >the book without without reading it.  Your thought seems to have been
> >that you didn't need to read it.
> 
> My, my...
> 
> I wasn't *asked* to read the book. And then, because I hadn't read 
> it, I was told that "it seems that students who read Cliff's Notes 
> instead of the book are following professorial example."
> 
> That's bait-and-switch followed by a personal insult. That is not 
> "merely saying that [I] commented on the book without reading it.
> 
> And I'm entitled to call it "bullshit." Because that's what it is...
> 
> 
> Brad DeLong
> 
> 


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