And a happy New Year to you too, Geoff. :-)
Slim
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:32:43 -0800 (PST), Geoff Burling
<llywrch(a)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.