On Monday, October 12, 2020 at 4:50:33 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On 10/10/2020 7:59 AM, Gary wrote:
> > Leo wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2020 Oct 8, , Ed Pawlowski wrote
> >> (in article >):
> >>
> >>> This was 2003
> >>> http://mlmug.org/MoMStan.html
> >>
> >> I seem to remember that Stan and Andy met once for lunch. They took a picture
> >> of themselves looking at a river. The picture of them was from the back. I do
> >> not stand by this memory.
> >
> > Probably right. Andy never showed his face, only his butt.
> >
> > I always guessed that he was a "witness protection plan" fellow
> > and the bad guys finally caught up with him that New Year's Eve.
> >
> Andy was mentally ill.

He was, but he crossed the line with that "No Legs Murphy" shit.
Blake was no friend of mine, but... Then there's that worthless
turd, Greg Morrow, who used the phrase, "Slant Eyes." That's not
OK. A person's ethnicity and culture are more or less kind of fair
game, if they're relevant to the topic, but racial characteristics are
never OK. And to Jebus, who suggested that my wife of all
people had named her Halloween dessert "Spooktacular," out of
racial animus, I want to tell you this. When I told her about that,
she had never known of the pejorative, "spook." She, unlike me,
didn't grow up with racism, and has been an active anti-racist
since long before it was popular. She doesn't have a bigoted
bone in her body.
She's been a children's librarian in the community where we live
since 1992, and when she started her job at a library where
some of the older White women who worked there had double
standards, letting White patrons check out books when they
had outstanding fines, but not extending the same exceptions
to Black patrons, and she was having none of that. The
library director at the time let it go on, and she risked her job
by demanding that the practice had to stop. Oh, but it went
much further. When the book, *King and King* came out, she
put it into the children's collection, and has put up with outright
persecution by social conservatives for decades, including
incidents that included vandalism and ceaseless harassment.
Others in the community objected to her buying Bible stories
for children, as she had more of them in her collection than
most other libraries in St. Louis County, but she was buying
well written books that were requested by patrons, without
regard to ideology. That's what librarians are supposed to do,
and she did it, and continues to do it.
However one feels about *me*, Betsy is far beyond reproach.
Anyone who attacks her here should know that she's gotten
a lot worse, and her personal integrity has never wavered.
The most you could justifiably question is how such a
saintly woman could possibly be married to a guy like me,
and I cannot, nor will not, comment upon that.
>
> Jill

--Bryan