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[Colm Buckley]

On 3 Mar 2004, at 08:45, Niall O Broin wrote:

> But [esr] sometimes writes a lot of sense. Reminds me of Kevin Myers 
> in that way - sometimes massively irritating, sometimes right on the 
> money.

I don't know.  I used to think so, but lately I've been looking at his 
work with a more sophisticated and critical eye, and I now see less 
insight, more ego-massage and more plain old wishful thinking.  Much of 
the problem with his newer work is basically that he's blinded by his 
gun-totin'-libertarian ideas, and nothing is allowed to intrude which 
might present any contrary evidence.  When he refrains *entirely* from 
amateur anthropologism, his technical observations can be astute (but 
not exceptional), and these days it's getting harder to separate 
Eric-the-sensible-advocate from Eric-the-loony-gun-nut.

	Colm

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