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- From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
- Subject: Re: Membership Decision
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:59:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.235909.8439@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <BzoI38.2zs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <BzqGzv.sI@world.std.com>
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- In article <BzoI38.2zs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wiggins@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Wiggins) writes:
-
- >In one of the first newsletters that I received as a new member I
- >learned that there was a tremendous amount of unrest in the local
- [....]
-
- >During the past year or so, however, I just haven't found much in the
- >magazine that appeals to me. Several weeks ago I posted a note in this
- >group expressing my irritation with the anti-Bush/anti-Perot cartoons
- >that appeared in one issue, and wondered whether the editors would
- >balance that out with an anti-Clinton cartoon sometime before the
- >election. Someone posted a response that they (MENSA) can only publish
- >what they receive, which was a pretty weak argument. The organization
-
- Actually, that is a very good argument. And I find that much of what
- is printed in the Bulletin (I assume that's what you're talking about
- here, rather than the newsletters you referred to earlier) is generated
- by Mensans who are deluding themselves when they think they can write.
- But I must say that much more in the Bulletin is good than has been
- in the past. And that, I believe, is due in major part to the editor,
- Kent Van Cleeve, who is not only a driven editor, but a good writer,
- and those responsible for the decision not to renew his stint as
- editor will realize their mistake, IMHO, much too late.
-
- As for those political cartoons, let's just say that I found them,
- um, less than side-splitting.
-
- GMS
-