>>>>> This is hilarious!  I point out that Klahn blindly echoed   
   >>>>> Krugman's column (without understanding the substance and   
   >>>>> without any reference to Krugman). And Klahn's "response"   
      
   >>> You echoed the column, blindly, which has nothing to do   
   >>> with "a direct quote." I suppose that, in your mind,   
      
   >> An echo is a direct repetition.   
      
    EC> Now he's just trying to be boring: "a close parallel or   
    EC> repetition of an idea, feeling, style, or event"   
      
    Now he's pretending he gets to define how the whole world   
    perceives anything. Nothing in what I posted qualifies as a   
    "close parallel or repetition. Not by any reasonable standard.   
      
   >>> someone doing a simple google search would not find the   
   >>> "inspiration" for your post, as long as you, for example,   
   >>> change the word "avatar" to "icon."  Interesting strategy,   
   >>> but it failed.   
      
   >> You are too stupid to realize, I did not care one bit about the   
   >> words "avatar" or "icon". Nor would the word "avatar" lead them   
   >> to the column.   
      
    EC> And now he is just faking ignorance of basic searching.  If   
      
    And now he is pretending he didn't focus on the word "avatar".   
      
    EC> he had copied the phrase "avatar of conservative economics"   
    EC> directly from the original, a Google search would have lead   
      
    Since I didn't even come close to that phrase, and since the   
    word "icon" did lead directly to the Krugman article, just that   
    one word, he's bull shitting again.   
      
    EC> right to the source of his post.  So he alters the wording   
    EC> to "conservative icon for economics" when passing off   
    EC> Krugman's idea as his own.   
      
    Like I said, google 'icon' and Krugman's article showd up on the   
    first page.   
      
    Now Earl seems to be saying Krugman is the first person to ever   
    suggest that Friedman was an "icon" of conservative economics. I   
    would not use the word 'avatar' simply because my understanding   
    of the word does not make it valid.   
      
    OTOH, I read one of Milton Friedman's books and watched his TV   
    Series long before I was reading Krugman.   
      
    And the best Earl can do is quibble about words?   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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