Re: Not "Satanism;" realism.

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 09:48 PM 1/1/99 -0500, Mitch Stone wrote:
 
>So what was he really, a lazy idiot?

Most say that he was a lazy, manipulative opportunist who
took credit for the work of others. His propensity for 
napping on the job is now well-known. And his relentless 
efforts to manipulate the press very much resembled the 
campaigns Waggener-Edstrom used in its quest to deify Bill 
Gates. Who else would have promoted the electric chair, and 
given it to authorities gratis, in an attempt to slime a
competitor? (Yes, it's true. Edison did this to discredit 
Westinghouse, which was rightly advocating alternating current 
over direct current for power transmission. Needless to say,
the electric chair used alternating current.)

--Brett Glass