Hmm… well, props to this guy that I’ve never met.
His blog is here.
But I wonder if the MSM is trying to reign in the blogs–proving their superiority–by passing out blog awards.
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Archive for July, 2005
Sometimes songs best express how we think or feel when we can’t find the words ourselves:
‘Cause I’ve got nothing of my own to give to you
But this light that shines in me shines on you
And makes everything beautiful… again
It’ll be alright… it’ll be alright
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The guy makes some good points on death row cases, but in the midst of it all, there’s this:
The fact that so many cases are overturned might indicate some trouble with the system, to someone with a brain in his/her head.
(emphasis added)
Just pick a gender and go with it. Sheesh.
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Apparently, this news agency would much rather party with the terrorists than even make an attempt at remaining objective. Ah, whatever. We’ve known that Reuters was a joke for a while, but now they’ve gone and mooned the entire world. Their only response? “Whaaaaaaaat? Everyone there thought it was funny!”
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Jerry mentions Jayne Mansfield in Episode 59: The Implant. Mansfield’s daughter, Mariska Hargitay, is the first woman to audition for the role of Elaine in Episode 63: The Pilot.
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I coulda told you this for a lot cheaper price.
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This guy is all about shameless self-promotion.
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I mean, really… this is getting ridiculous.
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From the HuffPo:
So much for Tony Blair’s hope to “put Iraq behind us.” The dustbin now awaits George Bush’s argument that “we must take the fight to the enemy over there so we don’t have to fight them at home.” Imperial fantasies, as shattered as the London transit system. The G-8 leaders feign innocence while the innocents die.
I don’t know. I think he’s exceeded his limit for pretentious statements in a four-sentence block of copy. I rather enjoy one comment on his visceral post, made by reader Molly Bloom:
In the August-September 1942 issue of Partisan Review, George Orwell wrote an essay entitled “Pacifism and the War,” in which he famously remarked:
“Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security. Mr Savage remarks that ‘according to this type of reasoning, a German or Japanese pacifist would be “objectively pro-British”.’ But of course he would be! That is why pacifist activities are not permitted in those countries (in both of them the penalty is, or can be, beheading) while both the Germans and the Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories. The Germans even run a spurious ‘freedom’ station which serves out pacifist propaganda indistinguishable from that of the P.P.U. They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could, but in that case they have tougher babies to deal with. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
I am not interested in pacifism as a ‘moral phenomenon’. If Mr Savage and others imagine that one can somehow ‘overcome’ the German army by lying on one’s back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen. As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that Gandhi was very useful to the British government. So he will be to the Japanese if they get there. Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”
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