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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
1 You will never convince anyone of anything here, so the post "substantive content" remark you made is absurd, and simply ids you as someone with no sense of this board. Penske and I WERE the most substantive posters here. But quickly learned not to bother.
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I've been around here for a pretty long time, and I still don't buy this philosophy. I'm sorry you feel that way, because it clearly cuts down on the number of quality posts you provide (admitedly using a different standard here than you use).
Oh, I agree that the directly partisan political GOP-DEM knife-fights never seem to convince anyone. However, there is a lot more to this board (especially during a non-election season).
Every so often I learn something new, and there are many issues discussed here that I don't think much about in my everyday life (e.g. almost anything Burger posts on), so the discussions here do sometimes help shape my views.
The Captain hasn't been around long enough to see the range of your ouevre, Hank -- or to understand that every so often you will unexpectedly send out a thoughtful substantive post which cuts through the cloud of B.S. Most of your posts, though, are efforts at being simultaneously cryptic and funny -- which is tough to do and inevitably results in uneven quality.
Please don't try to discourage the Captain from posting on 18th and 19th century legal theory, or constitutional history, or from asking reasonable questions -- that is good shit. Its part of what distinguishes this Board from the standard AOL/Yahoo chat board and makes it worth spending time here.
S_A_M
P.S. I must have been away when Penske was one of the most substantive posters on the Boards (or it must have been a _long_ time ago). I am pleased that he's moved in that direction and cut down on the lunatic sockery in the past few months. Again, who knew he could have an interesting perspective? All praise to the babyjesuschrist superstar!
