This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS. Not only do you kick him, you kick him until he passes out — then beat him over the head with a baseball bat, then roll him up in an old rug, and throw him off the cliff into the pound[ing] surf below!

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS. Not only do you kick him, you kick him until he passes out — then beat him over the head with a baseball bat, then roll him up in an old rug, and throw him off the cliff into the pound[ing] surf below!" in the context of "Michael Scanlon, in an e-mail in reference to Bill Clinton's being politically "down" while he was called before a grand jury during the Lewinsky scandal." to mean that wisdom is timeless.