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Today was the first day of spring...a day to relax...Pi or not...
Montois
On 3/20/09 8:06 PM, "JIM DOHERTY" <jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> T,
>
> When Montois said that what he was really interested was not who the actors
> were who were elected to public office but rather:
>
> "... what are the institutional elements making this possible..."
>
> then when on to admit that this was:
>
> "In a certain way this is off topic so if it is too much (off topic) then
> let's drop it..."
>
> You responded by saying
>
> "Let's... the question is not likely to have an easy answer, and it is totally
> off-topic."
>
> I have no objection to dropping the subject, but if you're dropping it only
> because you do't think the question has an easy answer, what am I here for but
> to make that which you're all convinced is complicated simple to understand?
>
> Montois, the reason actors sometimes get elected to public office is because
> more people vote for them than vote for the candidates who are running against
> them.
>
> There. Now that I've explained it, you can go back to discussing why no one
> makes PI movies anymore.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
>
>
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