At 11:46 AM 19/05/01 -0400, bob scheetz wrote: > i put it to you, as a >modest, serious, and humanely scrupulous person, is anti-semitism >groundless? Er, it is quite possible to be seriously irritated not just at the current Israeli government but at many of that nation's policies back to its foundation, and at the same time sympathetic to the sufferings of the Palestinians, without dipping into anti-Semitism. Since on this list, if any, pedantry is forgivable, it ought to be pointed out that most people between the Nile and the Euphrates are arguably "semitic" per anthropological jargon. While pedantry may be forgivable, scheetz' remarks above are not. For those of you who don't know, most modern email software comes with a convenient feature which allows you to silently suppress input from anyone; the above semiliterate historical ignorance is a good example of when to use this, so I just did. Bye, bob. I suppose, given that EP was beyond all doubt a great poet but also pretty clearly an idiot in many of his beliefs, we can expect the list to include representation from fools. But we don't have to read them if we don't want to. Ethical issues aside, we're all busy and life's too short. Bye, bob. Cheers, Tim