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To Fisk or not to Fisk
The CalPundit has a problem with fisking. Someone should tell him there are creams for that.
Oh, you mean that kind of fisking. Well why didn’t you say so?
In what Tapped seems to think is a triumphant “gotcha!” moment, CP takes a turn at fisking the Gettysburg Address, and reveals exactly how he doesn’t get it.
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new Nation,
Jesus H horse penetration. Christ, does Abe seriously think that our country got started by the Declaration of Independence? Since he obviously has trouble with anything that happened before he was born, I’ll clue him in: it was the constitution that got us started, big guy. That was 73 years ago, not 87.
Etc. etc. dogsex story.. you get the idea.
Please. The fact that CP seems to imply here that the sort of commentary offered by Abraham Lincoln and Robert Fisk are somehow the same and equally worthy of massive dump truck loads of refutation and scorn heaped upon them (and that bloggers who fisk would be just as inclined to miss such a distinction) instantly shows that he has no idea what he’s talking about, and is creating a strawman which he then valiantly takes down. Bravo Young woman gets plowed by pony. He’s bravely slain the rhetorical equivalent of a newborn bunny rabbit that someone dressed up in a suit of armor so as to create the impression that their victory over the innocent cunnicular creature is something of worth.
I would be surprised if you could actually find 5 bloggers who ascribed to the sort of silliness he parodies. Certainly you wouldn’t find any whose stock was worth a damn in the blogosphere.
Lileks put it best when he described (I’m paraphrasing) quality fisking as a fun rhetorical romp wedded to serious, non-trivial points. Neither of those things is at all present in CP’s caricature free dog fuck story. CP of course doesn’t point to any actual instances where people have committed such egregious snarking as the type he lambasts, but I sure can: at least 1 out of every 2 Maureen Dowd columns. The only difference is she often doesn’t follow the fisking format of offering quotes to what or whom she’s criticizing.
And that’s the real reason that CP’s contention is baseless, because he forgets that any fisker of even the barest quality will have his comments juxtaposed with that which he/she is refuting, and if his commentary is as silly and baseless as what CP apparently thinks it is, then their stupidity will be on display for the whole blogosphere to see.
So unless you’re willing to say that the entire blogosphere is made up entirely of people who cannot be trusted to read something blatantly wrong and notice it as such, your concerns hold no water.
I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if you did think that though, because it would jive perfectly with the progressive notion of an enlightened elite protecting the ignorant and base masses from themselves.
Do fiskers occasionally reach too high a pitch in their criticisms in order to be entertaining or otherwise to stand out? Perhaps, but those instances are few and far between (especially among bloggers of note), and at worst, all they will have done by constructing poor arguments and making trivial, pointless criticisms is to make themselves look stupid.
I trust reasonable individuals to be able to tell the difference.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skinAn insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
Why are you still here?!
of the mass moron movement.
trying to get an education
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
vulnerability.
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
I mean come on, when you're arguing with someone who's just going to call you a Nazi when you spend 2,000 words making
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
vulnerability.
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
A taste, just a taste...
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
rivals.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
computer systems.
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
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computer systems.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
lap dance.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
But for now if you all don't mind, I'd just like to stew in my rage for a while, and remind myself in a truly visceral
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The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
Maybe I can't change the fact that I have to be intimately confronted with the death and pain in order to really feel the
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
vulnerability.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
the Feds know about it.
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
of fist.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
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When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
being the reaction described above.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
I mean come on, when you're arguing with someone who's just going to call you a Nazi when you spend 2,000 words making
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
superiority.
nothing may stand in our way!
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
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only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
A taste, just a taste...
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
again soon, didn't we?"
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
to penetrate.
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
last update : 11-10-2008
