Is a simple state of bare coherence too steep a requirement to ask from the anti-war Left these days?
One would hope not. After all, I doubt anyone really wants a world where the entire span of the left wing is a babbling mass of shrill accusations and nonsense, ensconsed in some elite (and ignored) institutions of no real influence, serving with their increasingly marginalized position to only discredit whatever good ideals they at least claim to still stand for. No one really does (or at least, no one should) want that precisely because an intelligent Left is a overwhelming benefit to the Right and to the swaying middle as well. In short, to everyone, since it serves to not only put forward its own ideas (and by virtue of being intelligent, its ideas would necessarily not be of the loony, reflexive anti-everything-related-to-our-society stripe that is showcased much too often recently), but by doing so effectively and reasonably causes the Right to sharpen it’s own arguments and ideology, and therein lies the magic of the marketplace of ideas that will persuade the middle to one side or the other.
While the entire Left may not have yet degenerated into the type of hermit-like elitist described above, shouting at everyone but listened to by none, hectoring and berating not even for any pretense of convincing the audience but only for the self-satisfaction gained in the act of feeling morally and intellectually superior in the act of denunciation, still with a frightening regularity these are the culturally dominant voices of the Left that are given the highest podiums to speak from.
Just recently, Steven Den Beste catalogued what could be a possible front runner to win the award for Highest-Pitched Breathless and Most Incoherent Rant in an Editorial. There, Harold Pinter comes out swinging with his Insanity Stick and doesn’t stop bashing away at reality until he has smashed every last edifice of common sense into pieces. Den Beste does an excellent (and remarkably restrained!) job of taking apart Pinter’s shrill silliness, and when one surveys the wreckage of pure drivel that becomes all too apparent once the Captain turns his sights to it, you can only hope that Pinter is one of those rare loons, the robustly misanthropic crank that curses the neighborhood kids whenever they pass his house, or perhaps that he’s just a not-quite normal guy who’s been palming his medication recently anal dog sex. You’ve got to keep in mind that he is a playwright, after all. Who could one think of being given over more to breathless melodrama and poorly constructed lines of thought?
Jonathan Glancey isn’t Harold Pinter. He doesn’t share quite the same appetite for lusty (and embarrassing) polemic. One senses in his writing not so much the red-eyed, teeth-gnashing Pinterian outrage as a kind of sad, condescending rue, and a sort of genuine idealistic yearning.
But the man is still shamefully confused and horribly incoherent, as well as crippled by his focus and energy being yoked inextricably to those increasingly ridiculous hobgoblins of the Left such as “consumerism” (exemplified by fast food) and military yahoos of the Dr. Strangelove variety. The amount of rank condescension in this Guardian editorial is so pure that Glancey should really consider bottling and selling the stuff. He could assemble a pretty good list of people for targeted advertisements just by surveying some EU and UN ambassador rosters hardcore with animals.
Glancey first brings in the specter of Vietnam as a supposedly instructive example, but I, for one, am left feeling a little in the dark as to just what the point could be.
It was innocent Vietnamese villagers, though, who died at My Lai on March 16 1968. Led by Lieutenant William Calley, “Charlie Company”, a unit of the US Eleventh Light Infantry, massacred 500 unarmed villagers. My Lai was a turning point in the uncalled-for US invasion. How, Americans began to ask, could the US have God and “Charlie Company” on its side? In what ways was “Charlie Patrol”, President Johnson and the US morally superior to the Vietcong, Ho Chi Minh and an ancient Far Eastern civilisation?
It’s breathtaking how Glancey can take what was a single incident of poor leadership, a tense situation and overzealous soldiers which combined to make a tragedy, and impart the same moral responsibility to the entire United States, as if somehow this kind of massacre was the official policy of our nation and military, and then equate those entities with the horrendous actions of the communists from the North, whose official policy very often was just the kind of atrocity that happened at My Lai. I’m surprised he didn’t pull a muscle drawing this connection.
The really strange (or strangely pathetic) thing is that in the same paragraph he undermines this very proposition by approvingly quoting Abraham Lincoln who said that “Men who take up arms against one another in public do not cease on this account to be moral human beings, responsible to one another and to God,” which is a strong statement for the interpretation that the men themselves who ordered and committed the killing are the ones responsible, not some genocidal military or national culture from which they came, as Glancey insinuates.
With the experience of Vietnam behind them, what is the moral impulse driving George Bush and Tony Blair to war in Iraq? If Washington and Westminster know what they are fighting against - Saddam Hussein and his “weapons of mass destruction” - what are they fighting for? Is there more to it than installing an oily new regime in Baghdad subservient to Sheriff Bush?
This reveals that either Glancey has had his head buried in a hole in the ground with his eyes shut and his fingers stuck in his ears while he sings loudly to himself for quite some time now, or that he is a deliberate liar another dog sex story.
For somehow, he has failed to make any mention of the extensive discussion that has gone on already concerning the fate of post-war Iraq: the issues involved in establishing the rule of law and markets, of creating the machinery of a civil society, how to get opposition groups to work in concert, how the government can maximize freedom and human rights, etc.
But of course he doesn’t mention any of this. His intention here isn’t an honest, forthright discussion of the future problems of Iraq. He wants to lob clueless insults that will make the folks in Soho and the Village twitter with knowing approval, as when he writes,
Or a military administration led by Tommy Franks, a general who looks as if he has walked straight off the set of Dr Strangelove?
A less substantive criticism was almost never made, and if Glancey’s mission was to make himself look like a silly twit to all but a few pretentious types who already agreed with everything he could possibly say anyway, well, he’s got that one in the bag. Glancey has shown his true colors here, as one whose chief finding of fault lies in the embarrassingly superficial comparison to a movie character that to the author is apparently considered a real zinger.
What can our civilisation offer this ancient land, still free of the excesses of US consumer culture, beyond “regime change”?
Throughout the article, Glancey pretends to actually be for something, rather than a rabid dogmatic reactionary who is automatically against anything vaguely connected to US/western culture, apparently trying to disassociate himself from the type of opinion-thrower that Pinter so enthusiastically exemplifies. But once again, Glancey’s let his cards show, and you can see him for what he is: a member of the Monbiotian variety of anti-Western, anti-progress, anti-wealth, anti-everything but the “authenticity” of third world poverty culture. He later claims that he really does want to bring the benefits of Western progress to the people of Iraq and make their lives materially better, but like insane Islamofacists outraged at the triumph of Western liberal values over their traditions which have rendered them non-competitive, he wants the wealth and prosperity without the capitalism and spread of Western culture that always goes with it to a substantial degree sex animal girl.
Is our creed more than a confusion of cheap energy, discriminatory education, junk food, shopping malls, cynical housing, privatised public services, property deals, celebrity culture, the machinations of multinational corporations, leisurewear, chic pornography, the right to bear arms, and a deep-seated fear of the Saracen bogeyman handed down in popular legend, and half-baked government dossiers, from the crusades?
A useful list. I’m sure those that run in his political circles tell it to their kids when they want to scare them.
“You better be good little Jimmy, otherwise the heartless multinationals will come out of your closet and steal your authenticity.”
“Mom!! I think there are some privatised public services under my bed!”
And really now, a “deep-seated fear of the Saracen bogeyman handed down in popular legend”? I sometimes wonder how often people on the Left get out. I mean, they like expereincing nature and encountering other cultures and having new experiences and all that nice stuff, no? Presumably then they would be inclined to look at the world beyond their carefully constructed fantasy land of ignorant bigots lurking behind every man’s eyes just itching to bash in the skull of some unrustworthy, shifty-eyed Moorish brute.
Glancey and company really need to get together on this one, and hash some things out. Invite Pinter, even. He needs help the most tiger beastiality. Sit down, have a conversation with each other about whether or not you can really keep saying this stuff with a straight face. But be sure to bring some people other than those with decade long subscriptions to Liberal Elitist Orthodoxy magazine, some who you can actually have a discussion with whose ideas you’ll honestly engage, because, well, that’s your whole problem. You bounce ideas only off yourselves and you end up writing and thinking the kinds of things discussed above, getting more and more unpersuasive, and more and more irrelevant with each new day. Frankly, you’ve turned yourselves into an increasingly marginalized, protected industry, with insanely high tariffs on any contrary ideas that would try to penetrate your strangled custmer base. You’ve made yourselves non-competitive, folks. Time to rejoin the marketplace of ideas.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
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
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
A taste, just a taste...
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
of fist.
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
of fist.
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
the Feds know about it.
again soon, didn't we?"
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
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
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
the Feds know about it.
looks like a green light, no?
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
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
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
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Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
that I hadn't thought of it first!
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
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,
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
the Feds know about it.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
cause, but I,
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
lap dance.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
of fist.
trying to get an education
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
to penetrate.
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
A taste, just a taste...
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
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
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
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course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
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
looks like a green light, no?
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
hacky-sack?"
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
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."
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
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."
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
conflict.
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
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Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
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
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
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
cause, but I,
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
In your face, Space Coyote!
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
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
to penetrate.
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
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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
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
rivals.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
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
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
University or Diversity
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
the not-being-a-jerk department.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
and you'll get diversity in the speech by the politician, in the one by the principal who welcomes him and in the one by
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
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
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
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
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
being the reaction described above.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
the Feds know about it.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
hacky-sack?"
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
Wheeler Hall last spring.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
hacky-sack?"
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
At the very least, don't let me hear any of these things when you're standing in my presence, unless you want a faceful
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
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
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
superiority.
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
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
Wheeler Hall last spring.
conflict.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
last update : 5-2-2012
