Comments about varying words like “genocide” only disturb the Coach because he wonders what they have to do with winning the game.

If you use words like “extinction” is that for your convenience or do they actually HELP?

Anything that DEMONSTRABLY helps is something Ole Coach wants to hear about.

But at the convention, while White Rabbit was answering questions, he referred one to me A sincere guy was asking if we couldn’t use Indo-European or Caucasian as a variation on “white.”

I was tired, and, as you have seen me do here, I lost my temper. All I could do was shout “STAY ON MESSAGE!”

This was, as so often here, utterly uncalled for. The guy was there a the convention asking a question and I had no right to lose my temper.

This sort of thing does make the hear rise in me, because I have worked so hard on nailing down what WORKS, and when someone starts quibbling without reference to how something WORKS, it makes me, as we say down South, “Just tired all over.”

On the other hand, nothing is worse for free thinking than having a bad-tempered old bastard who is easily upset.

Keep in mind that the words “reasonable” and “Coach” do not belonging in the same sentence.

Players are aware that the same coach who comes down on them would tear the arm off of somebody ELSE who said exactly what the Coach did about you.

But what is far more important is that other commenters handled the suggestion “extinction” perfectly.

They criticized this variation from several points of view, all from being IN ON the fight.

One cannot appreciate the Mantra fully until one has USED it in disciplined way and watched the hyenas run for cover.

Besides, I think that hearing that same word, “genocide,” over and over and over and over is a fully appropriate punishment to those who have repeated the same Mommy Professor clichés to us over and over and over the decades.

And if it didn’t WORK, THEY wouldn’t do it.

You may be tired of using the same words, but remember that they are far, far tireder of HEARING them.

Serves the bastards right.