[LMB] Re: Rats Bats and Vats, Heyer and Freer and Flint OT:

[Ross Ashley]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:43:11 +1200, "Martin 
Bonham" <martin at bonham.net.nz>
wrote:
> In a post I read in Vol 15, Issue 2 of the Digest
> "Phil Boswell" <phil.boswell at gmail.com>

> Was kind enough to take the time to correct me.
>> Read the page you linked to:
>> > http://www.baen.com/library/eflint.htm
>> "A Trotskyist, he has remained true to his faith 
[snip]

> Thank you, I appreciate the correction. 

> Funny That. I searched the long Biography on his 
website, to which 
> I gave a URL, for "trot" (finding only the word 
socialist).

> But then, as Phil observed, I totally missed it staring 
me in the 
> face in the single paragraph at the top of the Free 
Library download 
> page.

> I suppose I must have visited that page several dozen 
times in the 
> last six years, and I don't recall ever properly reading 
the 
> paragraph at the top - my eye seems drawn 
immediately to the book 
> titles and download buttons.


> Martin.

> ps: I note that when researching my original post I 
skimmed the 
> Wikipaedia list of 23 different types of socialism, and 
decided I 
> didn't want to know anymore about the distinctions 
between them.
> obBujold - More types than I have fingers and toes.

Heck, Martin, there's that many varieties of us Trots 
alone ... the Red Bear 
and I are respectively a Barnesite and a Lambertiste. 
We are each others' 
heretic. (As for calling one's politics a "faith", were it 
my bio I'd have 
skun the blurb writer at Baen who did that.)