Jan Rogozinski

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Dear Cam Hui:

I suppose folk write for SA because it helps publicize their website or has some other benefit. But I often wonder if the aggravation is wrote the benefits. Certainly I have no intention of ever doing so and then putting up with abuse from folk spouting rude gibberish.

Americans are brought up with the undying conviction that they were born knowing everything that it is possible to know.

One result of this is that they never read books or do research, and they thus die in total ignorance of every subject.

Another is that politicians can get away with saying, as McBush does, we can balance the fed budget by saving 30 billion a year in "earmarks" while simultaneously increasing war and military spending by 500 billion to 2 trillion a year. Duh.

Another result is that they send these rude and hostile emails to the authors of essays on subjects they know nothing about.