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David Sternlight<david@sternlight.com> wrote
(in article <326EA5A4.53A4@sternlight.com>):
>
>I must have missed the announcement that peeves of interest to Americans
>should not be posted to alt.peeves. Thanks for letting us know. ;-)

It's not so much the question of whether or not the announcement is
relevant to alt.peeves that gets me going, as the idiotic and blinkered
assumption by the originators this thread that the issues would be of
interest to EVERYONE reading them. It's narrow, it's parochial, and
it's annoying.

I could blather on at length about the cash-for-questions scandal,
supression of the Scott report, Westland Affair, and numerous other
political messes that have been swept under the UK government's carpet
over the past seventeen years, but I think it would be fair to say
that rantings on those topics would not be received favourably by 
the denizens of co.general or oh.general. By the same token, it would 
only be polite to confine debate about US political issues to newsgroups
where it's relevent.

Now if you have a _peeve_ about Clinton, that's another matter. But
peeving is a highly specialized and erudite art; blathering about
obstruction of justice in the style of Robert MacElwaine doesn't make
the grade.


-- 
Charlie Stross -- charles@fma.com, charlie@antipope.demon.co.uk
"Listening to an Oasis song is something like undergoing a six-hour
proctoscopy while the surgeon's assistant runs her nails repeatedly
down a conveniently-placed blackboard. Only more so." -- Tequilla Rapide