From a reader who has many sensible things, so when I am Czar I shall merely claim his left baby toe as payment for his impertinent questioning of the cashew.
Jonah:
Your usually unassailable logic has failed you on this one. While I do not dispute that cashews are the best nut to eat with scotch and whiskey in grown up civilized settings, it does not follow that cashews are the best nuts. You suppose that, on average, it is preferable to be grown up, and in a civilized setting. This is manifestly not true.
Clearly, someone who is playing beer pong is not being grown up. Further, while playing beer pong, it would be absurd to be downing cashews, rather than, say, honey roasted peanuts. And Yankee Stadium is also clearly not a civilized setting. While at Yankee Stadium, one eats peanuts from their shell. Finally, I would guess that, on average, most people would agree that it is far, far better to be playing beer pong or going to Yankee Stadium than to be doing anything grown up in a civilized setting, whatever you may think of the Yankees, or peanuts. Frankly, peanuts do not even get my vote for best nut – that goes to the amazingly versatile almond.
All this proves is that it is very hard to get people to agree on anything. However, it has been many years since I have seen folks in the Corner disagree so much on something so monumental as the Terry Schiavo case. I have noticed, by the way, both anecdotally in speaking to people and even in the Corner, that the more that people learn about the case, the more they begin to have sympathy for Michael Schiavo. Maybe this proves that Conservatives can also be swayed by sentiment. Anyway, I agree with WFB, in that we ought to say “Enough”. Time to let the topic go.






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