Re: Re: Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

[Joanna Sheldon]

Hi Jim and Doug,

>Brad writes:
>>Positively, totally, utterly, completely nutso.
>
>Michael, isn't this the kind of abusive rhetoric which gets people expelled 
>from pen-l. (NB: I'm not in favor of expelling anyone. If Brad doesn't 
>clean up his act, I encourage everyone to put him on their filter lists.)

What's to clean?  I'm with Doug on this one.  

And I, too, was amazed to see "provocative" disparaged by our list owner.
Don't most of us hope to be provocative, at least part of the time? Or is
it that we're not supposed to provoke the members of the clan (list).  But
how else can we maintain the health of the community -- how else can we be
some sort of certain that our arguments are sound? 

Jo