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I think we ought to have happyfeet go here and file a report.
Glossary of Quaint, Antique “Ethical” Terms:
Most moral virtues, and not just courage, are understood as falling at the mean between two accompanying vices. Aristotle’s list may be represented by the following table:
| Vice of Deficiency |
Virtuous Mean | Vice of Excess |
| Cowardice | Courage | Rashness |
| Insensibility | Temperance | Intemperance |
| Illiberality | Liberality | Prodigality |
| Pettiness | Munificence | Vulgarity |
| Humble-mindedness | High-mindedness | Vaingloriness |
| Want of Ambition | Right Ambition | Over-ambition |
| Spiritlessness | Good Temper | Irascibility |
| Surliness | Friendly Civility | Obsequiousness |
| Ironical Depreciation | Sincerity | Boastfulness |
| Boorishness | Wittiness | Buffoonery |
| Shamelessness | Modesty | Bashfulness |
| Callousness | Just Resentment | Spitefulness |
Huh. Polytheistic Kalash Tribe of Pakistan?
I’m a little baffled as to why you would throw Mona a link, but since you did, I’ll link to my brief response from yesterday.
I want my review copy of Greenwald(s)'(s) book.
Don’t hold your breath.
Karl – Don’t worry. The hairy dinglesberries will keep her from seeing the link.
I’m kind of tempted on the Billabong thing cause that’s easy enough to get to on the subway but it starts at 8 so if I took someone that would be an easy $100 for two hours of I’m not sure what exactly and the money goes to a dubious cause where they enthusiastically exhort the fantabulousness of clean energy and then advocate against wind farm projects. I think giving them my monies would make me part of the problem.
Yes, but the photographs–nevermind your brilliant captions–would be priceless.
Now you’re making me think. I think maybe I’ll start carrying a digital camera around and see what happens. That’s a good idea really just cause there’s an off-chance I might be relocating soon or so. Probably not but maybe.
hf, I have one of these, and use it a lot.
Ok I bookmarked that. I’ve really got to finish ordering computer parts before I accessorize any more.
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!!!!!
ok so that went on the wrong thread and you know what? I’m not even gonna try to explain. Not even.
Dan: Please forward to me the email in which you requested that Glenn send you a review copy of his last book. (I gave you my email addy when I first made the offer to help you get a copy, after you had offered a fair review.) I cannot push him to send what I have no proof has been requested, or an address to send it to.
Thanx.
Surliness?
Friendly Civility?
Obsequiousness?
The chart makes it look so easy.
But you didn’t email me, Mona. You put his address in comments:
Send me a forwarding address at croolwurld-at-earthlink.net, and I’ll send it to you.
Thanks.
Da: Yes, I told you I have no direct control over who gets review copies, and gave you Glenn’s business email address, for which you thanked me and implied you would make that request. Did you email him and request a copy?
No copy can be sent absent a snail mail email address. If you are serious about getting a copy, send that address to Glenn and/or me, as you had indicated you would. Doing nothing but sitting around complaining you have not received a copy when you have failed to take the steps necessary to obtain one, is not honest.
Thanx.
What’s a “snail mail email address”…?
Mona, you wouldn’t know “honest” if it squeezed you out of its birth canal.
Thanx!
What’s a “snail mail email addressâ€Â…?
The meatspace address Dan has to give to get dead tree material delivered, such as the Greenwald book he said he would fairly review. Using his preferred email address, which Dan apparently Dan posted, he should contact Greenwald for a copy, and cc me. To my knowledge, Glenn has never failed to get his publisher to send a requested review copy. But I do not have the direct ability to command Random House-Crown to send out such review copies.
If Dan was sincere in his request, he should contact Greenwald directly, using whatever email account Dan prefers.
Mona, read my question again. What’s a “snail mail EMAIL address?”
Twit.
That’s dial-up McG. (pronounced Mick-Geee)
Mona, read my question again. What’s a “snail mail EMAIL address?â€Â
Oh, yeah, teh stupid error on my part. But point being, I reluctantly (I so seldom do it) posted my email addy, as well as Glenn’s Salon business addy, and advised Dan to request a review copy. Dan can do that from any email address he wishes to use!
What more should reasonably be expected of me or Greenwald to meet Dan’s expressed interest in obtaining a review copy, so that he may (as he promises) fairly review the book?
Here. It’s the same as last time we spoke about this, the email I sent to Glenn:
From: Dan Collins
To: ggreenwald@salon.com
Subject: Your Book/Mona
Date: Apr 16, 2008 9:01 PM
Mona’s telling me that I ought to read your book before I express any view,
and I suppose she’s right. Would you be so kind as to have forwarded to me
a review copy? I promise to review you as even-handedly as I’m able at Protein
Wisdom and on Amazon.
Thanks,
Dan Collins
xxxx Monkton Rd
xxxxxxx, VT 054xx
So, as you can see . . . I did include the mailing address, herein redacted, figuring it probably wasn’t coming as a PDF. So if you’d like to forward that address to Glenn (in which case I’ll need your email address, or you can set one up here), or have him request it from me via email or Facebook message, I’ll be happy to supply that.
Maybe I missed it. Where did you post your own email addy?
Dan: I originally posted my email addy in that same thread where the subject originally arose. I’ll do it again: xxxxxxxxxxxx. Forward me that email to Greenwald and I’ll see to it you get a copy.He does not read all emails any longer since he now receives hundreds a day. But a prompt from me will get attention.
Thanks. Just sent it off.
Would you like to have me xxxxx it out in your comment? Well, I did, anyway. If I could have found it in that original thread, I would have done so there, too.
*Sigh* Now she’s asked that I email it to Gleen, again.
Most. Tedious. Thread. Ever.
Oh. Except for those super datadave person intensive ones. Not to be mean but he uses so many words.
Dan writes;Would you like to have me xxxxx [your email addy] out in your comment?
Yes, thank you. I did ask you to send the request to Glenn — as I originally also did — because he is the one who has to ask the publisher to send free review copies. But as you should have seen in my CC to you, I put my approval on the request. It is a bit late now for review copy requests, which are usually done pre-release, but you will get a copy.
Thanks, Mona.
Are you seriously going to review a book about John Wayne’s influence on the chickenhawk rethuglican constitution shredders who are all either wimps acting out or else closet queers?
Jesus.
But I did get a kick out of Mona’s playing that one black dude to Greenwald’s(‘s) Carvelli.
What can I say? I’m Catholic; I’m a masochist.
I asked nishi, and she told me that list was actually created by Plato.
…or
…or
Pluto
Play-Doh
My links were gobbled. Ouch.