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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

“WAR doesn’t work”

By Tangotiger, 11:00 AM

This site is blocked at the office, and Google Reader only shows a portion of it.  I can only presume that the author will use illogical or irrational reasoning (or has such a myopic view that he misses the entire point of WAR) to try to make some sense to support his thesis, because that’s what ALWAYS happens when someone says WAR doesn’t work.  (I’m just applying Bayes here.) It’s the same kind of reasoning when one says “OBP doesn’t work” to point out “BB=HR?  It doesn’t work!”.

But, I’m willing to play along and post this thread blind, and be embarrassed, as the author makes a cogent or insightful argument.  I’ll read the rest of the thread at home tonight, unless someone wants to post it below, starting from after “There’s only one problem.  It doesn’t work.”

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