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From: dschuetz@umd5.umd.edu (David John Schuetz)
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Subject: Re: Fearmongering about Gallileo (Long)
Keywords: Atlantis nuclear protest
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Date: 14 Sep 89 16:08:53 GMT
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In article <9117@zodiac.ADS.COM> adiseker@ADS.COM (Andrew Diseker) writes:
>	This article appeared in the Washington Post, Sunday 10 September.
>The author is Colman McCarthy.  

Oh.  Well, then, we can ignore it.

I assume you're familiar with Mr. McCarthy, if you've read the Post for any
length of time.  I'm not really sure that there are that many people around
here who take him seriously, and, fortunately, I don't believe that his
column is syndicated.  

I had a friend who took a class from him here at UMCP once, "Alternatives
to Violence."  While she thought the class was interesting, she also thought
that most of the people in the class were less-than-impressed by his more
radical ideas, and didn't like the fact that though he was morally opposed to
killing animals for food or anything, he wore a leather belt and shoes.

In short, the author, IMHO, has a reputation for going very far out on a limb
in exactly the same manner he did here.  I read his column for the semester
my friend was taking the course, just out of curiosity.  I got very quickly
disgusted with the man and his ideas.  I think this is part of the reason
he's on the Style page so often, rather than Outlook....


>The above opinions are mine.  I speak for myself and not my employers.

And mine are mine.  I speak for noone but myself, and I mean to make no 
slander towards Mr. McCarthy, only to say that I don't put much stock in 
what he has to say.