Kevin  Gowen <kgowen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 2, 12:42 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > Kevin  Gowen <kgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Feb 29, 11:09 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Kevin Gowen wrote:
> > > > > On Feb 28, 10:49 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > > > >> CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > >>> One of the great tragedies of our time is the large group who mistake a
> > > > >>> degree for education and a having a diploma from a school of a
> > > > >>> particular name for intelligence.
> > > > >> L Frank Baum had a good line on the phenomenon.
> >
> > > > > Better than Winston Churchill's?
> >
> > > > Just about any comment by L Frank Baum is better than one from someone
> > > > more famous.  But, his work is more classic American and must be viewed
> > > > within the age in which he was writing.  Knowing / understanding the
> > > > Populist and Progressive Movements, and Free Silver, are a big plus.
> > > This is the Churchill line I had in mind:
> > > "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
> > > quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930.
> >
> > Fascinating. What did he say about reading the work from which the
> > quotation was derived, or did you not make it that far in your book
> > of Churchill quotes?

> You are comedy kryptonite.

Thanks; allow me to point out that you are to intellectual discourse what 
squirrels are to quantum physics.

Mike