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More Common Delusions
Sometimes a piece is so all over the map in terms of idiocy that there is really no comprehensive way to sum it all up and say “This is why it’s wrong.” Sometimes, the sheer amount of throw-away innuendo, general ad hom insults, brainless platitudes and taken-for-granted conspiracy nonsense just makes me look at it and shake my head and say, “Man, I’m not cleaning up this mess.” Like when your dog gets loose while you’re away and paws his way into the trash can, tracks mud all over the kitchen floor, chews on the sofa and then ceremoniously takes a dump under the kitchen table. You just really don’t know where to begin to address the problem, being overwhelmed by the sheer ubiquitous complexity of the mess.
That’s sort of how I feel about this, “As If it Matters…” The author, Bill Davis, doesn’t really have anything substantive to say, just a lot of sorta clever turns-of-phrase to dole out, and he ends up sounding like a slightly more somber, certainly more earnest, yet equally vacuous Maureen Dowd. We’re helpfully informed at the the bottom of the page that the man’s a playwright.
Well, “melodrama” doesn’t begin to describe it.
Writing and protesting have in common the fact that one has to do each as if it matters. It’s a leap of faith that words put to paper will nudge a consciousness here or there or that raising your voice against the monolithic mobilizing military machinery will somehow put the brakes on.
Alliteration like that should be made illegal. No, scratch that. Idiocy should be made illegal. I know, I know, this worries you. “But who,” you may ask plaintively absolute beastiality. “Will write our plays then?”
Simple. Monkeys on typewriters. Lots of monkeys. Lots of typewriters.
I’m curious whether Mr. Davis recognizes that the amount of monolithoscity in our military machinery that is currently mobilizing is no greater (and probably much less substantial) than, say, his own dear protesters’ pillaresque purity of pensive philosophy.
I wonder if Davis has any real knowledge of how our military operates. A single civilian Commander in Chief, but one whose inexperience in military matters leads him to consider the opinions of sundry experts, both within the military’s command structure and without, among whom, as the media has been all too happy to inform us over the last few months, there is a wide diversity of opinion in the administration and in the minds of the generals who report to them. The only curious part is that before, this was used as a justification to not go to war, because the administration was crumbling apart. “There’s no unity!” we were told, as if there must a single monolithic voice shouting down pronouncements from the mountain of supreme authority.
“People, Americans, countrymen, the Lord hath spoken to me and bade me give you these ten commandments which will lead us to victory over the evils of Saddam!”
For the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and for Bush and company, the protest didn’t matter. For at least 150,000 people in Washington D.C that day, it did. If one letter to a congressperson is indicative of 100 people feeling the same way, what does one person getting on a bus in Wisconsin or Michigan or Minnesota to come to Washington in person mean?
Could mean several things my friend. First of all, it means you can’t be trusted to give numbers about the protest, since reliable sources put it at 100,000 (you might want to look into a lucrative career as an accountant for Enron). It might indicate that there are only about 100,000 people out 270,000,000 who are against the war, but that they’re all really really against it and also happen to have too much time on their hands. And yes, maybe it means that there are significantly more than 100,000 people in this country who think we’re going off half-cocked here, but you might be aware of the fact that the query of “just how many more?” is the $40,000 question horse sex galleries. And polls that actually try to answer that question, rather than simply throwing out vague notions of “more than 100,000″ have showed that the majority of the public is still for the war.
The relief after the sniper’s capture was short-lived since my chosen mode of transportation was Amtrak. Word went out that the U.S. rail system was a target for Al Qaeda according to information coaxed from prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. I decided to take the comforting position that the warning was just more of the same terror alerts meant to keep us all off balance and in our cars buying more gas.
It’s pretty sad to realize that this man takes comfort in the notion of a sinister conspiracy by the US government. But I suppose there is comfort to be found there for such a one as he, where his bizzarro world of Adolf Bush and the global hegemony of BIG OIL is still able to be clung to, however desperate and pathetic it appears to sane people.
In between the terrorist surveillance I read the paper and learned that the captured sniper was a Gulf War veteran and that the gun he used was something called a “Bushmaster.” This, as much of the past two years, comes under the heading of – overwritten. When the motifs and literary devices are too thick with resonance an editor might say, “It’s overwritten.” “Bushmaster” is overwritten. And yet there it is. A Gulf War veteran – a weapon named Bush – anonymous targets – murder maybe motivated by money, maybe not – a combination of pathology and greed – and the streets feel more and more like enemy territory and the populous suffers under a low grade and palpable depression.
In other words: “The point I’m making is ridiculous and has no relevance or the slightest fiber of common sense because it’s all based on silly puns and the like, but, at the same time, there it is!”
Where? I’m honestly looking, and can’t really see anything. Perhaps if I even had an idea what “it” was, I could be more effective in my search. At the very least, I’ll bet “it” is something endorsed by Gore Vidal wife sex with dog.
What with all this conspiriatin’ goin’ on in the above paragraph, one is left to wonder why Davis neglects to mention the perhaps salient point that the sniper was a Muslim convert who expressed sympathy with Al Qeada? Wouldn’t that keep us on our toes and off balance? Then we could go and buy some more SUVs and gas and the like, cuz I don’t know about you, but whenever I feel like my equilibrium has been disrupted, the first thing I do is slap down some money and gobble me up some of that sweet comforting unleaded American goodness.
The chant that defined the protest for me was “No blood for oil.” The Washington Police were great but then so were the protestors; an ardent, passionate and peaceful lot. The image that was most arresting was the sight of the empty White House surrounded by citizens. The “Surround the White House” protest was supposed to have taken place on September 29th 2001. But that day was pre-empted by 9/11. So here it was one year and one month later, the unoccupied people’s house surrounded by the occupied people.
Always inconvenient when the Bush Junta and the CIA creates an enemy like Bin Laden so they can mastermind the death of thousands of American citizens to add a few million to line their pockets, in addition to all those millions they already have, eh? Though he doesn’t say so explicitly, Davis here raises the familiar moan that went across the pantheon of the left after 9/11: “Fuck! All our causes are going to suffer because of this. Damn Bin Laden! Wait, wait, no. I shouldn’t say that. Damn Bush and the Republicans! Yeah, that’s the ticket. I am absolutely sure they actually caused this, if only indirectly. And as soon as Noam Chomsky writes something about it, I’ll be able to tell you why.”
But no need to worry your addled little head off, Davis. After all, the “Surround the White House” gig went off anyway. Just for completely different reasons, but hey, we’re still out and protesting something, and that’s what’s important right?
“As if it matters. k9 erotic stories..” and all that good stuff. Don’t let the cracks show now, Davis! You might actually let on that a protest of a hodgepodge of malcontents, one of which can’t write an article without throwing in just about every silly fallacy and talking point of the left, actually doesn’t matter. We can’t have 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 otherrivals.
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
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
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
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
nothing may stand in our way!
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
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
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
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.
lap dance.
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
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
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
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.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
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."
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
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
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
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
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
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
cause, but I,
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
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
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
University or Diversity
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
superiority.
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
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.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
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
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
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
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
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
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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
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
Why are you still here?!
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
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
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
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
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
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
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
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
looks like a green light, no?
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
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
superiority.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
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
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
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
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
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.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
"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.
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
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
A taste, just a taste...
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
I finally went and did it.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
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
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
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.
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
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
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.
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
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."
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
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,
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!"
again soon, didn't we?"
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
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
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.
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
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
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The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
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
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
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
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
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
again soon, didn't we?"
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
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
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
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.
Why are you still here?!
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
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
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
In your face, Space Coyote!
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
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
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
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
computer systems.
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
cause, but I,
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
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
about equal probability.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
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?
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
about equal probability.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
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again soon, didn't we?"
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
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
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
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
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
superiority.
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
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