I know what it's called, and how the composer's name is spelled, (I play the basson, a little piano, have played Sibelius,) thanks anyway.

Very interesting to read Lindsay's historical post to Elijah, to get an idea of the censoring standards.

--Mindy

It seems English Cricket officials are visitors to solopassion.com and take my (quite sensible) advice!

Michael Vaughan has resigned as England Cricket captain...and rightly so after the pathetic performance last week.

http://nzcapitalist.blogspot.com/ 

Well trawled WSS. Observant of the goings-on and knees-ups!

Mindy, the scalp disease is Seborrhea, the composer Lineberry sips Scotch to is Sibelius, and of course Sebelius is the current governer of Kansas, one of several folks touted to be part-Negro Barack Obama's Vice Presidential pick . . .

I don't know if deep down in his withered heart Lineberry is racist**, or would act ugly or be bigoted to a Mordi, Negro, Spaniard, simply because of their ethnic makeup, but he writes in unreconstructed racialist terms and is averse to acknowledging it -- so, Enoch Powell, though maligned as a racist, was not, was in fact a hero. Lineberry will thus rue the fall of the British Empire, and views giving the Negro the vote in former colonies in Africa as a betrayal of greater goals.

For a gruesome good time, have a gander at the post and thread in which he defended segregation as not racist, gosh.

Not a soul was able to convince him otherwise (though I must note that Lindsay gave him an excellent and wise short sharp spank at the time) -- a snippier, tetchier, more boorish set of responses could be imagined, but only from someone as stupid as Kevin Owen . . .

Lineberry is perhaps useful to SOLO. He was previously banned for crossing the racialist innuendo line, but gathered back into the fold because he isn't nearly as awful as some of the other banned Antipodeans such as Rick Giles or Ross Elliot. Before he was banned, he also recieved a verbal spanking from Lindsay, worth repeating, below.

I think it might be true that Lineberry is a boon and an asset to SOLO and its various related enterprises (he copy-edits Free Radical, once a job for the sharp eyes of Chris Sciabarra) -- he has a few dollars left over from bullion buys, and is said to be a gracious, warm, and charming companion at the varied SOLOish knees-ups in Auckland. Who knows -- the racialist buffoonery could be just a false front.

We will just have to gape at his dubious remarks on Negroes and darker styled people -- until such time as he crosses that invisible line once more.

WSS

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** I wager Lineberry has known some of the ugliness of bigotry, if only because he comes from a (rich-ish) Jewish family, is homosexual, is hemophiliac.

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[from Lindsay's "Decision" post in the rancourous "Elijah Lineberry, are you a racist" thread introduced by Jameson.]

Below is the message I've just sent to Eli. Its import is that he's being stood down from the staff. He remains free to post here, but, lest anyone might have wondered, any racist views her may hold or express are at total odds with what SOLO stands for.

I've spoken to Mitch just now and we both feel we've bent over too far to give you the benefit of the doubt - which is fine for a non-staffer but inappropriate for a staffer. Maybe you *deserve* the benefit of the doubt - if so, I'm sure that'll become apparent over time. But it's the old thing about Caesar's wife - must not only *be* beyond reproach but must be *seen* to be beyond reproach. I'm carrying a torch for Objectivism, which abhorrs racism. I mean it, and I must be seen to mean it. Folk are right to call me on this, just as they were to call you on your statements.

Is some sort of head disease, isn't it?