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Peace Patriot

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5. Hard to do analysis without sitting in a chair (with arms or not). It takes...
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 10:15 PM
Aug 2012

...lots and lots of research from many sources--corporate news reports, alternative news reports, human rights groups research, accounts of past and recent history, etc.--lots and lots of reading and lots and lots of THINKING to be able to write an analysis and convey an opinion of more than two sentences. People who can't sit in a chair for all that research and thinking produce short, simplistic, often aggressive put-downs of those who do take the trouble to be well-informed.

Or perhaps you prefer analysis and opinion written as the thinker falls down the Rabbit Hole into Wonderland--on the fly, so to speak, getting the hang of jabberwocky along the way.

Got anything substantive to say, say it. But don't criticize me for sitting in a chair.

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