The Ellison Bulletin Board

Name: Eric Martin
Source: unca20061122.htm
And Todd, next time you want to announce who some alias is, get the facts first. Wyatt has the IP logs...make an effort, not an assumption.

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Name: Eric Martin
Source: unca20061122.htm
Sorry Todd, not this time. Neither ghost chose me as their respective channel.

And for once, I'm relieved...

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Name: Eric Martin
Source: unca20061122.htm
Susan and Harlan, please accept my sympathies on your sudden loss. You both are clearly in the thoughts of many right now.

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Name: Eric Martin Source: unca20060901.htm I always knew this day would come, but I assumed it would be as a result of my own actions. I've had my own ups and downs here, in the five years I've hung around. But in the end, I've decided to leave because this is just not a very good place to be anymo...

Yes, Willis should have commented by now. No question about that, and I feel bad for Harlan that she hasn't. As for public debate, I have only supported the need for Webderlanders to talk about this amongst themselves. I have not contributed to nor cited any blogs. Earl, it's not so much what those ...

Name: Eric Martin Source: unca20060901.htm Cindy sez: "From my observations he's got a keener sense of what is right and appropriate than 99% of the rest of us." So we've steadily moved from "Harlan made a mistake" to "Harlan didn't do anything wrong" to "Harlan behaves better than any of us." Guys...

>This has been a gleeful pile-on for, as Josh observed, a momentary lapse in judgement. <

I'm not sure to what you are referring. Maybe posts on other blogs, but I haven't seen any glee or piling on here. And Josh Olson is still new to this community.

I agree with Jim that the public (and certainly Webderland) needs to hash this out. What is Harlan if not a very public writer? I'm not clear on why some people have a problem with this, and are trying to guilt others away ("this is between him and Connie"), ir implying that any negative c...

Name: Eric Martin Source: unca20060901.htm "Sexual assault" is a pretty strong term, and I'm not sure it applies here. On paper, perhaps, but there are a lot of mitigating circumstances that make the issue fuzzy. So this is Harlan's Gibsongate. I don't approve of what he did (and were I Connie's hu...

Name: Eric Martin
Source: unca20060901.htm
http://trashotron.com/agony/indexes/aud ... _index.htm

Scroll down to bottom of the page for mp3 or real audio options.

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Name: Eric Martin
Source: unca20060901.htm
Harlan, you're welcome. Hard to believe that the publisher wouldn't have checked all this out after listening to the author's pitch. Someone screwed up...good luck.

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Name: Eric Martin
Source: unca20060901.htm
Violating posting rules to give Harlan link to this City book, including ISBN number:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074349 ... 44?ie=UTF8

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Name: Eric Martin
Source: unca20060901.htm
Hey, could I have some moderation here? Ravenscroft went ad hominem.

Eric, trying to make Webderland as safe as our national airports.

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Name: Eric Martin
Source: unca20060901.htm
> I've been needlessly detained by assholes who clearly don't like my tint<

It wasn't the tint, sweetie..twas the tint + the t-shirt. He got profiled, and if you were working for the TSA, you'd have yanked him too.

Hey, I'm lily-white and yet if I marched through an airport with a t-shirt that said "Bush takes it up the ass" (as is my first amendment right, goddamnit) I'd expect to get pulled over. Get real, it's the times, sad as they are.

And I stand by my comparison to Tehran airport...he may have been inconvenienced here, but he would have been considerably more worked over in just about any other part of the world. Again, he wanted attention, and he got it. So what's his beef?

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