While often mocked by those explicitly on the Right (or perhaps just those who would consider themselves part of the anti-rabid-Left), I always thought the Guardian could claim a certain amount of respectability and prestige, if not in America then at least in Britain. Indeed, that’s one of the reasons I always thought those in the Blogosphere hammered away at it so often. That was probably the chief animating reason for my own forays into Guardian Fiskitude, for I saw it as one of the most sacred bulwarks of mainstream liberalism. If one simply wished to find some truly ridiculous and strident liberal fanatacism to laugh at, then one need look only as far as Indymedia or the Democratic Underground, where almost every regular would make most mental hospital inmates remark, “Whoa, that guy is nuts.”
However, while holding up such disconnected maniacs for ridicule is certainly fun, it really doesn’t serve any purpose beyond showcasing the extremity that a few fringe morons can achieve if they put their non-minds to it. Reading John Hawkins quoting DU-mbasses who, in their typical “Wake UP America!!! You live in a FASCIST POLICE STATE!” tone make claims like Frist planned and caused that highway accident so he could get some good press is golden yuk-yuk material, but it says as much about actual liberalism in America as would the Turner Diaries say about conservatism.
But I always thought the Guardian was a worthwhile target fantasy beastiality sex. To be sure, much of the commentary is downright silly, even aggressively so, but what matters when picking your rhetorical targets is not really the quality, but the percieved quality. No one serious disputes that the Democratic Underground is a place for people who order tin-foil at the bulk rate, but I was always under the impression that the Guardian, for all its frequent foolishness, was still considered to be at the forefront of liberal thinking in the mainstream press. I’ve never lived in England or communicated heavily with any number of people who could change that view, and thus had no evidence to the contrary. Indeed, I always took the continual Fiskings that the Guardian suffered in the Blogbowl as a good indication that the thing was at least worth attacking.
A reasonably liberal friend of mine has a forum account at Something Awfula purposefully crude and often hilarious humor site. Basically all the content that comes from the small group of official contributors is slightly to strongly left wing, and as far as I know, the forum comments follow that trend to some extent.
Well, I was venting to him about this Guardian commentary on racism in the LOTR, originally highlighted by Jonah Goldberg, and his reaction was, “Dude, the Guardian? What’s to get so worked up about? It’s a trash rag as far as I know hardcore with animals. All the british guys on SA are constantly bagging on it.” I think it’s safe to say these weren’t exactly Tories.
Anyway, not an exhaustive study, to be sure, but I think it says something.
So perhaps you shouldn’t get so worked up about the above commentary by John Yatt, that accuses LOTR of being not much more than a thinly disguised “Birth of a Nation” in a fantasy setting, where “orc” is just a racist code word for “darkie.”
Apparently, to Mr. Yatt, any being that is brutish, ugly, violent and stupid immediately simply must be a reference to those of African ancestry, which, as Goldberg notices, begs the obvious suggestion that perhaps Mr. Yatt should be examining his own views on blacks if he so immediately sees such a connection while almost no one else does i want fucking big dog.
One is tempted to ask who is the real racist here? On the one hand we have people — like me — who see horrific, flesh-eating, dull-witted creatures with jagged feral teeth, venomous mouths, pointed devilish ears, and reptilian skin, and say, “Cool, Orcs!” On the other hand we have people, like Mr. Yatt, who see the same repugnant creatures and righteously exclaim “black people!”
One really need go no farther than that in defending LOTR aginst cries of racism, because Goldberg’s response aptly sums up the fact that the matter isn’t even about Tolkien’s book, but rather about the deranged racialist agenda of so many people in our present cultural clime. In short, the accusation is so patently idiotic that it doesn’t deserve any serious refutation textually demonstrating that Tolkien actually took his inspiration for the orcs from some source other than the KKK.
But hey, I’m feeling generous. Stupidity sometimes has that effect.
Contrary to what so many on both sides of the LOTR love/hate divide wish to believe, the LOTR is not an allegory making some masked argument about specific historical events. Sauron isn’t Hitler beastmistress. Theoden isn’t Chamberlain. The Orcs aren’t the Zulu nation.
Tolkien was a devout Catholic (his constant arguments about faith are one of the things that eventually converted C.S. Lewis from agnosticism to Christianity), and to be sure, there are Christian elements that can be discerned in LOTR. There are also shades of political argumentation, but as Goldberg points out, they are timeless and universal themes rather than specific allusions, such as whether people will choose to stand up to evil rather than try to simply weather it and not get involved.
But more than anything as regards his fiction writing, Tolkien was a student of Anglo-Saxon folklore and myth doggy sperm. He’s the author of “Beowulf and the Critics,” still considered after 70 years to be the definitive commentary on that epic poem. An examination of Tolkien’s “day-job” work would quickly reveal that the LOTR takes its primary starting point from the old folkloric traditions of hero quests, and that the orcs most likely have much more in common with Grendel than any racist notion of African savages. Of course, Tolkien has also injected much culture of his own English countryside and culture into the novels, but to constantly look for some hidden agenda (especially a racial one) that focuses so centrally on present day issues is to disregard the kind of writer and thinker that Tolkien was.
Maybe the Guardian really is largely seen a trashy pile of rags in Britain as well. Judging from the editorial standards that would allow rambling journalistic guano like Yatt’s piece to pass through the quality control boys’ hands, I’d have to say that sentiment, if there, is well-deserved.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her fromof the mass moron movement.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
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
I finally went and did it.
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
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
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
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'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam 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
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
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
In your face, Space Coyote!
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
again soon, didn't we?"
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
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
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
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
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Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
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 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.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
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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join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
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.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
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the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
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
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
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
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
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
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
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
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
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
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
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,
about equal probability.
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 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
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
lap dance.
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.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
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
superiority.
about equal probability.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
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.
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
trying to get an education
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
rivals.
nothing may stand in our way!
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
superiority.
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
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
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
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
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the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
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
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
again soon, didn't we?"
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
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.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
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
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
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
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"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
again soon, didn't we?"
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
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
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."
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.
Why are you still here?!
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
vulnerability.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
lap dance.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
cause, but I,
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
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
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
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
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
Why are you still here?!
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
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
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
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
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
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 was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
lap dance.
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
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
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
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
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
hacky-sack?"
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
of fist.
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
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
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
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
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
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 decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
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a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
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."
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 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
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
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cause, but I,
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
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,
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
cause, but I,
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
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
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
computer systems.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
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
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
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
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.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
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
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
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
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
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