RIP Killer Kowalski

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RIP Killer Kowalski

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:59 am

Killer' Kowalski: giant wrestler whom the audience loved to hate


In the professional wrestling world there are babyfaces and heels. Young, attractive, polite and operating within the rules of their sport, babyfaces represent everything that is good, true and fair. “Killer” Kowalski was a heel.

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Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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