Steven Spielmann
Steven Spielmann
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
Rahsaan:
It rises above the pedantic and becomes plain mean-spirited. Is that how they train young academics these days?
As a no-longer-very-young academic, I can answer this emphatically in the affirmative. Although (1) I think it's long been this way ("the game is so vicious because the stakes are so small" is a very old way to describe academe) and (2) Rahsaan strikes me as a pretty decent guy in general.
Joe, I don't know you at all in real life, I'm just a guy who follows your writings on the internet. But I know from these writings that the Breton wines have meant something to you at times, and to the degree that there was any personal hurt involved in whatever happened - which I know nothing about - I'm sorry.