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ans Laughing Bear



dude, you have GOT to have better things to do with your time than

gossiping with Meany about one high school student's reports from the

summer argumentation and debate class at Cornell.  should i just

tape-record it and send you the tape so that this isn't Bryant hearing

3rd hand and then lying on CEDA-L?



1) private vs. non-private



BEAR:



"> From:          Michael Miroslav Korcok <mk48@cornell.edu>

> To:            Michael Bryant <MBRYANT@central.weber.edu>, owner-ceda-l@cornell.edu



Please note. The double address makes this a non-private post.

Remember."



ME:



ah i see. so the vicious and loopy messages you sent me first, which

were also dual addresses, and which this message was a response to,

were 'non-private'?  it is okay for me to post those now?  or will you

send the same "private" note you have sent to folks before, begging them

not to post your insane attacks?  but then i suppose that is not

necessary since probably just about everyone has received 'private'

messages from you.  that is why you were thrown-out of NDT-L, wasn't it?



and i should respect "Bear's rules of double-address privacy" because

why?  there are quite a few literally insane messages still saved for

Shaffer, me, and others.  those should not be posted because?



2) The CEDA Hall of Fame



yes, it was a metaphor.  the kid asked "how good a coach are you?"  i

answered "my position in the CEDA Hall of Fame is assured."  i was

laughing at the time both because it was an unexpected question and

because i thought my answer was clever.  i ALSO explained that there was

no such thing as a CEDA Hall of Fame, but if there were ...  



yes, i am proud of my coaching.  i believe that i know how to do it at

least as well as anyone there is.  do you believe otherwise?



3) Coached Your First National Champion



right, i don't think you have any idea about what it takes to coach

national champions, but of course that doesn't stop you from opining

freely.



i have NEVER said ANYONE's life has less "meaning" or any such rubbish.

you ascribe feelings and opinions to ME which i MOST CERTAINLY do not

hold.  i think that is the single most distressing thing about your

"private" posts to me and other folks i've spoken with:  you don't think

twice about equating me with Stalin, about implying that i think of

anyone as "paltry little peons," and other things which are frankly

unrepeatable in public.



i have NEVER said "excellence in results is the most critical thing."  i

believe as a fundamental matter that the means is at least as important

as the end.  but i won't apologize for my abilities and effort, either.



no significant insecurities at all from last year.  i wish i had done

more for Berman and Shaffer than i did, but i had quite a few other

debaters to coach.  they were ALL awesome.



Glen was the seventh national champion that it was my pleasure to coach

at one point: i make no apologies for thinking that i had some part to

play in that.  should i?



4) fill us in on being "upset about sharing a topic with the NDTers"



i am not and have never been "upset."  the ONLY time this has come up in

my class was when we were talking about different debate leagues in high

school and college.  i told them that Cornell was committing to a heavy

traditional NDT schedule in the fall and that i was concerned about

judges we'd never seen before and teams which were very very deep. in no

way did i malign or disparage the NDT or any NDT persons or programs.



5) Pam Stepp



this is dumb.  do you have something to say besides insulting me?



on previous occasions you have said the most scurrilous things about

Pam, both privately and publicly.  your disingenuous endorsement and

misinterpretation of what she said were annoying.  shall i post your

"non-private" comments about parents who put their 7-year-old girls into

gymnastics?



the difference is that, unlike you, i REALLY do respect Dr. Stepp and

her understanding of program-building.



get help, Mr. Bryant:

michael korcok
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