[Am-info] Re: Pusilanimous

[John J. Urbaniak]

sturde@az.com wrote:

> In <20020306170102.510F029BCE@lists.essential.org>, on 03/06/02
>    at 12:01 PM, am-info-request@venice.essential.org said:
>
> I have just read about DOJ's argument for its "settlement" with MS in the
> Register and WSJ.  It reminds me of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman
> Empire.  I first read an abridgement of it, before I read the whole book.
> But in the abridgment the word "pusilanimous" kept appearing in describing
> certain people and events.  I finally pulled out the dictionary and looked
> up the word.  It is a "contemptible cowardice".  The more things change,
> the more they remain the same.

So pusillanimous poltroons are redundant?

>
>
> I think the settlement will not be approved.

Me too.  The good Judge is disgusted with the antics of Microsoft.   Who
wouldn't be?

And being a Democrat, her ideology isn't aligned with the current
Administration.  She's got nothing to lose by slamming them hard.

John