And a happy New Year to you too, Geoff. :-)
Slim
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:32:43 -0800 (PST), Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
Or is this one of those cases similar to the POV pair terrorist/freedom fighter? By which, I mean something like the following: if I hold the same opinion as a number of other people, then it is a consensus; if I disagree with the shared opinion of a group of people, then they are a cabal. Or is this use of "cabal" another example of certain words being misused to enflame emotions until they have lost their precise meanings, much as I've seen the words "war criminal" & "genocide" misused.