Like you I get lots of spam. Most are obviously spam, but every once in awhile one looks almost legitimate. And sometimes legitimate emails look like spam. A few weeks ago I got a suspicious email from a magazine reporter saying he had read one of my blog posts and asked if I would agree to an interview with him. Yeah, Right! Do I look like a fool?
But my ego got the best of me and I replied.
It was legitimate. He was a reporter for a online religious magazine and he wanted my opinion on a fundamentalist Baptist preacher who was questioning the existence of hell. I had written a post about the preacher about a year ago. As it turns out I declined to be interviewed because I didn't feel qualified to discuss something I knew little about. In the end we agreed to let him include a paragraph in an email I had sent him as part of our discussion.
The reporter, Raymond Billy, notified me yesterday that his article had been posted and sent me a link. I just find it ironic that I'm quoted in a magazine about religion. What I really want is for the NYTimes to drop Ross Douthat and give the slot to me.
Still waiting...
--Trakker
Raymond Billy, Louisianan
Move North, Mr. Billy. You can make it. I don't know about the others.
It was nice that RB would quote Trakker pseudonymously. As for filling in for Ross Douthat at the NYTimes ... somehow the NYT went off the track with its 'fair and balanced,' all the way to unglued.
If you have an hour to be entertained, this guy is not only smart but funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo
'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009
h/t, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/space/cosmologists-try-
to-explain-a-universe-springing-from-nothing.html
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Posted by: horsec | February 23, 2012 at 04:39 PM
When pigs fly.....
Posted by: Ted McG | February 24, 2012 at 09:41 AM