Where are the mass demonstrations? Contrary to the constant worries of so many bloggers, there seem to be good indications that the war will be in full swing by February. So where are the mass demonstrations that we saw several times a week during the Summer and early in the Fall? Where are the colorful signs and whimsical costumes of people who show how serious they are about stopping war by dressing up like street performers at Mardi Gras? You’d think that all of these concrete indications that actually point to a recognizble starting point for hostilities would have dumped millions of the not-so-silent anti-war majority into the streets to reiterate the notion that they don’t want to trade any blood for oil.
True, there are quieter, less flashy movements like this, one among several groups of people proclaiming to offer themselves up as human shields for Iraq, but these are the actions of a very die-hards (actually, if they truly commit themselves to being human shields for US targets - which in effect means places like Saddam’s precious palaces - they’ll be more like “die-easies” than die-hards), not even touching the base of the larger pool of anti-war types (who are themselves not very mainstream, and actually serve to often undermine their position among the broad middle that is required for any anti-war movement to succeed).
Does this mean the steam has gone out of the anti-war movement? Are they just not paying enough attention?
This article details plans for “mass civil disobedience” when the war starts.
While the Pentagon has spent the past year training troops, building facilities and stockpiling weapons to launch a war against Iraq, the peace movement has been using the buildup time to coordinate “emergency response plans” to disrupt domestic military activity, tie up commerce and get out their antiwar message big horse cock sex.
Fine. That will go over very well, I’m sure.
The real point of civili disobedience is not so much actual pragmatic effectiveness as it is public relations. Especially when you’re talking about “[disrupting] domestic military activity.” When there is such a huge preponderence of power on one side to the other (as in say, several thousand committed anti-war activists versus the every police force and the whole of the national guard), the leveling advantage of civil disobedience is to show yourself as noble, suffering and nonviolent and the other side as brutish, arrogant, aggressive pony penetration. There is always a fine line to be walked in such a situation by the parties on both sides of the picket line, but in this specific case of America in 2002, the larger questions of how such a campaign would play out lie with the “protestees,” who, for their own maximum benefit, have to balance effectively dealing with the practical costs of people chaining themselves to airstrip runways or the front gates of Fort Benning and, in doing so, not incur the psychological public relations costs that forcibly removing and arresting possibly thousands of people can bring.
Now, of course, this entire question is contingent on there actually being many thousands of people who are willing to repeatedly put themselves in such intimidating and difficult situations and accept the costs and penalties of doing so, which is a scenario I frankly find highly doubtful. Marching in the street shouting specious slogans isn’t the same thing as willing to go to jail (and to actually accept those legal penalties, which is what civil disobedience is all about; nowadays you more often find people who think that they should be able to break the law in favor of a cause they consider just, go through the glamorous and romantic passion play of being carted away by the police, but then be released and incur no actual legal ramification for their actions).
The way I think such an effort will play out is that there will be so few people actually engaging in this kind of civil disobedience that their effect won’t gain any kind of mass attention. You can’t get the true golden pathos of being beaten down by the Man without sufficient numbers to get beat down daughter fucking horses. Otherwise you’re just a few wackos who couldn’t find anything better to do on a Saturday.
“Tie up commerce,” eh? Yeah, hindering simple, everyday hardworking people in their pursuits to earn a decent living will go a long way towards mainstreaming your cause. Good luck. I find it more likely that you’ll get your head beaten in not by the fascist pig cops but by folks at AFL-CIO who don’t take kindly to your guff.
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 thecutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
being the reaction described above.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
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
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
computer systems.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
hacky-sack?"
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
computer systems.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
cause, but I,
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
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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 tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
nothing may stand in our way!
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
of the mass moron movement.
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
hacky-sack?"
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
that I hadn't thought of it first!
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
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
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
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
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
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
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
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
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
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."
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
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
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 elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
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.
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
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
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
nothing may stand in our way!
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
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
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
computer systems.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
nothing may stand in our way!
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
looks like a green light, no?
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
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,
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
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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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."
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
vulnerability.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
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anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
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
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
In your face, Space Coyote!
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
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
superiority.
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
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
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
of fist.
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
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
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.
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
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
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
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."
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
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."
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
again soon, didn't we?"
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
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
superiority.
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
again soon, didn't we?"
I finally went and did it.
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
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
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
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
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
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
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
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
cause, but I,
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
(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
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
trying to get an education
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
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
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
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
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
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
last update : 7-1-2009
