[Am-info] Dr. Bombay: Everything but MS is irrelevant

[Erick Andrews]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:55:57 -0700, T. Guilbert wrote:

>In a message dated 2003 September 12 (Friday), timestamp 04:11 PM, 
>   on the topic Re: [Am-info] Dr. Bombay:  Everything but MS is
>irrelevant,
>   "Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net> wrote:
>
>"|>The full URL is: 
>"|>><http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/columnists/dr_bombay/6744793.htm>
>"|>
>"|>Web site: www.bombayinstitute.com 
>
>
>"|Dr. Emilio Bombay, Computer MD?  Yeah, sure.
>
>"|Clearly, "Dr. Bombay" plies his trade by rousing the rabble,
>"|peddling snake oil, wasting space [and skin], and bragging about how
>"|smart he thinks he is.
>
>You are preaching to the choir, Erick.  More effective would be to
>send an email to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram with a tightly reasoned
>and focused but nonemotional exposition of his error(s).  This guy's
>column gets published in hundreds of newspapers; the trick is to
>figure out how to borrow some of his column inches to get the truth
>out. 

Mr T,

I'd like to believe you're right.  [but with a useless moan, here]

I think that the *real* trick is figure out how to effect my (or your) column 
micrometers into column inches.  It's just not my fort‚ to do so with his 
likes, with his grandstanding, with those who support his rhetoric, and with 
his broad syndication.  I think it sad, but true.  So here is our little radio station.

I think you may be suggesting an honourable strategy, but do you honestly 
think your tactic could prevail?  Am I self defeating?  Not 100% sure, but 
I basically don't think that writing back to him will make reason.  What
have *you* written to him and got back, if anything?

He's got a megaphone; I've only got an ear-trumpet.  I ain't gonna give him
my e-mail address, either.  Who?  Me?  Paranoid?  Maybe.  Who the hell is he?  
And I certainly don't want to give him more 'fodder'.  Maybe you should write
to his boss, whomever that may be.  I'd honestly respect any such reply.

If we live another hundred years, pray "Dr. Bombay" will go away, with or 
without the "Patriot Act", or the free transistor radio his dad missed out on.

Maybe I'm sick in the head.  Sometimes I hear voices from the past:  Duh?   
Thomas Paine.  Paul Revere.  John Adams.  Others.  'Give me Prosac or 
give me a new cell phone'!  ...just kidding.

-- 
Erick Andrews, most unemotional, but very *tempus fugit*.