Comments on: Objectively Pro-Murder

By: hal

hal — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:30:24 +0000

“Occupational Hazards”, by Rory Stewart. Just out, and highly recommended – one of the best descriptions of the bizarre, nightmarish (literally – in the sense of illogical) sensation of working in Iraq.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-0151012350-0

By: gjdodger

gjdodger — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:15:13 +0000

They don’t mean it. They don’t want it to happen. If it ever does happen–if somebody murders a political reporter for a nationally influential publication or broadcast outlet, and says, “I did it for Ann Coulter”–they will be backpedaling so fast, they could beat Lance Armstrong going forward. They are saying things like this because–surprise, surprise–their own champion has failed them. American soldiers brutalize prisoners and murder Iraqi civilians, and instead of defending and even saluting those actions, the White House apologizes and vows full prosecution. If things are going badly, they expect their man Bush to brazenly insist things are not going well and are fine–not to admit, in the presence of Tony Blair, that it was a mistake to tell the insurgents to “Bring it on!” That he is now exhibiting compassion and remorse is horrifying to these barbaric, linear-viewing reactionaries, and their reaction is to call for nothing less than fascism, the brutalizing of those who publicly disagree with their world view. If it happens, and one of them is held accountable, this bravado will vanish as quickly as did Eric Rudolph. And, although I hope that day does not come, they too will spend the rest of their days picking their meals out of dumpsters.

By: D. Sidhe

D. Sidhe — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:23:31 +0000

I’m not telling you my age, but the last book I read was “Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons” by Christopher McGowan. And the one before that was Greider’s “Who Will Tell The People”.

Admittedly, the one before that was the latest by the guys who wrote The Relic. Never mind.

By: Kobie

Kobie — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:24:56 +0000

Mikey — I’m under 35 too. If you start yelling at me to “get off your lawn” I’ll be pretty pissed :)

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:44:48 +0000

Coulter fan Adam Yoshidaâ€™s been getting in on the act too – his latest rant calls for the entire staff of the New York Times to be hanged for treason.

David Brooks first, please.

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:25:14 +0000

Sorry, qubit, you’re absolutely right. It wasn’t really a fair statement. But there really does seem to be an ongoing decline in thinking skills, in spite of the fact that (thank goodness) there will always be bright, intellectually curious folks like yourself. And yeah, my generation doesn’t exactly have a corner on the “thoughtful” market. My narrow and unscientific research, however, indicates that their are fewer thinking, reasoning, well-read people every generation. My nieces and nephews all had access to the best resources available, and are functionally illiterate, for example…

mikey

By: qubit

qubit — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:16:17 +0000

Everytime you meet someone under 35, ask them the last book they read. But prepared to be saddened by the resultâ€¦ Hey, I resent that implication. (Last book I read: Principles of Physical Cosmology. A month before finishing that: The Plague. I'm still in college, and no, neither one was any kind of assignment.) Everytime you meet someone of any age, expect to be horrified by how stupid, vacuous, and/or just plain bad the answer is.

By: g

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:30:53 +0000

They do it to win polticially and to make money, and what is really sad is that they do it in spite of the very obvious damage it does to the national character.

That people could deliberately cause more hatred while pretending its for “morality”-based reasons is frightening.

Coulter’s character is really a puzzle to me. What’s she all about? Are her current claims of being a Christian in “Godless” consistent throughout her career? It is impossible to convince me that she is actually a Christian, so what’s that about, is it about jumping on the bandwagon?

I read a quote from her recently – I have to paraphrase it, because I can’t find the reference, but she said something like “I consider myself a Christian, I know what they believe.” — she used the word “they,” which seemed rather revealing, like she actually held herself apart from Christians. Wouldn’t you say “I know what WE believe,” if you considered yourself a member of a group?

If it’s all a big act, though, it’s even more loathsome. And why would you want to pretend to be such a hateful person?

By: michaelw

michaelw — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:24:23 +0000

Does such a large percentage of our population truly carry around that kind of hatred and bloodlust?
Sadly, Yes!

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:27:29 +0000

It’s really a “perfect storm”. Evil men (and condi) take over the leadership of our nation in a bloodless coup at the same time that the marketeers have perfected the process of utterly distracting the populice. Creating sheep that will allow these sorts of constitutional depredations. I’m certain they could not have gotten away with it in the sixties. Try an experiment: Everytime you meet someone under 35, ask them the last book they read. But prepared to be saddened by the result…

mikey

By: punkinsmom

punkinsmom — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:40:51 +0000

mikey, I think I love you. I’ve been lamenting the increasing idiocy of the American people for a long while.
It’s (I imagine) a bit like watching the Hindenberg burn.

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:33:55 +0000

That’s him. Over there.

By: qubit

qubit — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:09:16 +0000

Whatever happened to the Popular Front?

By: Patkin

Patkin — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:47:47 +0000

Splitters!

By: Kobie

Kobie — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:19:57 +0000

Homexlamunardist Peopleâ€™s Front

Fuck off! We’re the People’s Front of Homexlamunardists!

(DISCLAIMER: It’s a Monty Python reference)

By: Mo's Bike Shop

Mo's Bike Shop — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:41:37 +0000

The Homexlamunardist People’s Front vows enternal enmity to the heresiarchical quislings in the Homexlamunarditard’s Syndical Commune.

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By: Kobie

Kobie — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:05:41 +0000

homexlamunardists

Whoa.

By: His Grace

His Grace — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:02:17 +0000

In some ways, I respect Yoshida and Coulter more than Assrocket and Reynolds. At least the first two just come out and say what they mean instead of diluting it with weasily lawyer words.

I have to agree with you there Brad. Yoshida at least is honest with his, erm, final solution to the homexlamunardists. Which is exactly the end result Instacracker and the rest of wingnuttsphere’s ideology. Most of ‘em are too clever to own up to it, and even if they do, it makes what George Bush does seem sane by comparison.

By: random guy

random guy — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:31:41 +0000

Ever been to Montgomery? Itâ€™s south of the South.

Ha, Alabama, they’re a bunch of liberals over there. I’ve lived in Mississippi , man.

By: EdsAppliance

EdsAppliance — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:07:53 +0000

Speaking of the state of the electorate.

Ever been to Montgomery? It’s south of the South. Here’s something from their paper.

This starts off like a typical letter to the editor.

“…Our nation is in a stage of spiritual and moral decay. There are those who would remove any vestige of Christianity from the American scene; blah blah, divorce rate; blah blah, unwed mothers; blah blah, illegal immigrants.”

But this is what really struck me.

“This war will not end when our troops are pulled out of Iraq. We Christians will be under attack until the end of time.”

So, politically, they are eternally exploitable. I can’t really blame the Republican Party, such easy pickin’s.