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.
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
vulnerability.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
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
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
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I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
nothing may stand in our way!
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
conflict.
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."
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
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
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."
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.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
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
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
about equal probability.
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
University or Diversity
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
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that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
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."
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
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.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
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Wheeler Hall last spring.
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
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
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
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
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
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 said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
looks like a green light, no?
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
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.
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
conflict.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
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
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
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, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
vulnerability.
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
looks like a green light, no?
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
In your face, Space Coyote!
being the reaction described above.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
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
rivals.
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
conflict.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
being the reaction described above.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
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
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
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
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
Why are you still here?!
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
trying to get an education
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
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
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
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
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."
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
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 guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
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
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
the Feds know about it.
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
of fist.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
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
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
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."
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
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
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
hacky-sack?"
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
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 death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
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 don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
Why are you still here?!
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
nothing may stand in our way!
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
A taste, just a taste...
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
hacky-sack?"
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
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've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
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