[Ads-l] organically

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Mar 14 13:16:08 UTC 2020


Michael Smerconish, top pundit:

"A time to slow down, social-distance, and get a hold of the situation.
That's what the nation seems to be doing, albeit organically and ad hoc -
not with any Federal admonition."

Note also  "to social-distance."  Moreover, we shouldn't "allow our fears
to self-actualize."

JL



On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:30 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > To do otherwise, as in outdated patriarchal-imperial prose, would be to
> lay
> > one's own trip on the reader, colonizing his/her mind while denying
> her/him
> > the freedom to think for himself/herself.
> >
>
> Well said!
>
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
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