Once again, I’m the last one to the party.
No matter though, because I’ve become convinced that people visit this site for the exclusive nude Michael Moore pictures rather than the pithy commentary (that is, of course, when it is pithy… most of the time my concentration of pith hovers well below the Blogosphere’s median levels).
Anyway, I’d link to some examples of excellent takedowns of the delightfully ignorant Ms. Crow, except I’d just be leaving out so many more, so rather than highlight a few and neglect the many, suffice to say you can’t swing a dead cat by the tail ’round Bloggerville today without hitting an adept case being made for Ms. Crow to be put in the corner with a dunce cap and instructed to think about what she’s done.
And, it turns out that, by voter decree, she’s already got the cap! Whaddaya know, folks? Chalk one up for democracy.
It looks a tad heavy, though, and seems to have a rather flat base, which means it will be a perfect fit for that thick-skulled blockhead.
So, like I was saying, I would launch into some tirade about how Crow has once again lowered the bar for political commentary by celebrities (currently the bar is so lowered that scientists have calculated it’s punctured the Earth’s mantle), but really, what’s the point?
After all, considering that she pontificated thusly. horse cum party..
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
…one is sort of left to wonder exactly why anyone would even stoop to responding to that brand of 4th grade logic.
Because it’s fun. Duh.
Oh, right. I always forget about that part donkey sex. Remember what I said about my pith levels?
So yes, the above statement displays a startling disconnect from reality. At least, it would be startling were it attributed to anyone besides a celebrity, 8 year old, or college professor. However, nearly as mind boggling is the assertion that:
…there’s a really vital, sweeping peace movement out there that’s not getting covered in the press, so I just kind of try to do my part.
“Vital?” Sure.
After all, the ability to walk and shout and carry things like placards are certainly valid signs of life. No one is accusing these people of being in a coma. It’s more of a plastic bubble, really. One where all their wonderfully idealistic notions about peace and happiness being brought to the Middle East if only the US would be more understanding to everyone and cease making selfish demands such as “Stop trying to kill us” are insulated from the inconveniences of reality.
But “sweeping”? I’m not so sure hardcore cumshot bestiality.
I’m naturally suspicious of the notion that any of these peace activists would be very janitorially inclined, since (even though their ranks tend to overlap with the environmental cohorts) their marches for peace usually end up leaving all kinds of offal in their self-righteous wake.
Anyway, Ms. Crow is no doubt waiting by the phone right now to receive confirmation of her Profiles in Courage award for “doing [her] part,” which seemed, as far as I can tell, to consist of her having a sequined v-neck shirt made with the lettering “War Is Not the Answer.”
I also hear she’s a Nobel Peace Prize contender.
Of course, I don’t know the full content of Ms. Crow’s keynote dissertation on geopolitical strife that she gave while backstage at the American Music Awards. I can only comment on what the news reports.
But presumably, it was Ms. Crow’s shirt that prompted the questions about her opinions on war, seeing as how she was prominently wearing her beliefs on her sleeve, or chest, to be more exact. A sensible choice, that, considering it’s the place most likely to draw the eyes of reporters and fans alike. Perhaps her opinions on global strategy (at least as far those two globes are concerned) aren’t so shoddy after all.
But whatever initiated the questions, one is left to wonder, in this as well as most other episodes of celebrity bloviation, why the star in question is never asked any kind of follow-up inquiry to their simple-minded statements question about beastiality.
Oh, I’m not talking about anything as harsh (yet nevertheless richly deserved) as “Yes, and Ms. Crow, is your mind-numbing stupidity natural, or the result of years of practice?” I’d be happy merely with some polite but honest questions regarding just how we should go about implementing Ms. Crow’s admonition to “not have enemies,” seeing as how they seem to spring up so numerously and with such enthusiasm. Remember, it was she that was so keen on doing her part that she decided to deliberately provoke questions about her political beliefs. She should be forced to at least be held to adequately explaining them.
So that when, after she gives that blank stare for several seconds that seems to suggest “Abort, Retry, Fail?” and starts to ramble incoherently about having “understanding” for the rest of the world or treating other nations with “respect,” well, then it will be acceptable for the questioner to remark, “You silly bitch,” and plop that crystal dunce cap on her pretty, empty little head.
that I hadn't thought of it first!Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
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 has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
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
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
to penetrate.
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
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
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
the Feds know about it.
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
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that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
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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
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.
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
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
nothing may stand in our way!
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
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
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
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
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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join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
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
being the reaction described above.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
lap dance.
looks like a green light, no?
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
In your face, Space Coyote!
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
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
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
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
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
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
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
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
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
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
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
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
A taste, just a taste...
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
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."
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
superiority.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
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
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
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
trying to get an education
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
to penetrate.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
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 prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
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
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
of the mass moron movement.
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
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."
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
to penetrate.
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
about equal probability.
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
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,
Why are you still here?!
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
"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,
vulnerability.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
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
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
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.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
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'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
lap dance.
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
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.
looks like a green light, no?
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 teacher trying to impress both of them.
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
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
trying to get an education
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
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
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
trying to get an education
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
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?"
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
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
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted 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.
trying to get an education
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
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
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
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
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
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
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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
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,
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
that I hadn't thought of it first!
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
the not-being-a-jerk department.
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
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
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
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
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
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.
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
cause, but I,
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
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
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
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
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.
of the mass moron movement.
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
being the reaction described above.
Why are you still here?!
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
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
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.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
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
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.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
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
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
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
last update : 8-9-2010
