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Thursday, Dec 09, 2004
its ok, jesus luvs you
"The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. They know the lies the victors often do not acknowledge, the lies covered up in stately war memorials and mythic war narratives, filled with stories of courage and comradeship. They know the lies that permeate the thick, self-important memoirs by amoral statesmen who make wars but do not know war. The vanquished know the essence of war—death. They grasp that war is necrophilia. They see that war is a state of almost pure sin with its goals of hatred and destruction. They know how war fosters alienation, leads inevitably to nihilism, and is a turning away from the sanctity and preservation of life. All other narratives about war too easily fall prey to the allure and seductiveness of violence, as well as the attraction of the godlike power that comes with the license to kill with impunity."
Wednesday, Dec 08, 2004
latke gravitas
"This drove the religiously faithful--the “fundamentalists,” as the Hellenizers would have called them if they had spoken modern American English--to revolt. Pitting Jew against Jew, the resulting civil war was led by the Maccabee brothers, who whupped the forces of “liberal polytheism,” as Green puts it. The conservatives, he continues, “were stronger, and more numerous, and the more passionate in their beliefs: they stood firm in the face of odds, and were prepared to make sacrifices, indeed to die, for what they held most dear.” Shades of the 2004 presidential election? Maybe so. And this conservative victory is what Jews for 2000 years have celebrated at Hanukkah."
Tuesday, Dec 07, 2004
flank stake
anybody keeping up with the leftwing blog smackdown? i knew i needed to be purged, just not ideologically.
Monday, Nov 29, 2004
pain management
im not going to pretend to know about scalias positions but its widely held that he is part of the "states rights" posse on the court, except, that is, when it inconvenient. if the newshour was correct in their interpretation of one of his statements, he couldnt look more the political hack. in the medical marijuana case curently being heard, scalia embraced his inner liberal activist judge when he considered that the act of growing pot for personal consumption for, in this case, medical purposes was actionable by congress under the guise of interstate commerce because not purchasing it was impacting commerce. id say youd have to be pretty high to buy that argument. interesting to see which way it will go.
Sunday, Nov 28, 2004
stocking up
i was just thinking the other day that since much of advertising isnt about the product so much as about branding that there almost needs to be a collection put together of advertising cliches that are no longer viable. adhacks sees my post modern assessment and raises me thirty. theyve turned the concept into a business plan as well as a public "service."guess i was stingy with the irony. the entire site is a joke. just another adventure into brand management.
Friday, Nov 26, 2004
virus goes a branding
the partys over; the pr people have arrived.
pvart
as a card carrying citizen of "tivo nation" you have to love matt haugheys pvrblog.
2020 vision
"This blog is a discussion space for the Constitution in 2020 Conference, which the Yale chapter of the American Constitution Society is sponsoring in April 2005.
Participants in the conference will be able to post to this blog in the months leading up to the conference; these posts will also appear on the Yale ACS blog."
lapsed dog
someones have a hard-on for themselves. blogger ethics committee. thats rich. i cant wait to be censured. how long before were choosing a pope?
Tuesday, Nov 23, 2004
are you ready for some seal meat?
"In other NFL news, Thanksgiving has become Throwback Day, with teams to wear old-fashioned uniforms and old logos on the NFL.com home page. TMQ suggests this menu for your own personal Throwback Thanksgiving:
Wild turkey, shot with a musket and hand-plucked.
Dried maize; no corn-on-the-cob.
Ample, overflowing servings of lobster. (The Pilgrims considered lobster tasteless and complained in their diaries of having to eat it so often.)
Seal meat.
Hard apple cider. (Till the early 1800s or so, hard cider was in rural North America considered the only totally safe beverage, because the alcohol killed waterborne pathogens; children often drank diluted hard cider and went through the day slightly tipsy.)
For dessert: plums, grapes and stewed pumpkin. (There is no chance the Pilgrims ate pie at the first Thanksgiving, because they had no refined sugar. Until the 1800s, most Americans rarely tasted anything containing refined sugar.)
As you dig into your turkey, stuffing and pecan pie, washed down with a $10 bottle of wine superior in quality to any wine available to the 17th-century kings of France, remember how hard your ancestors worked, and how they sacrificed, in the dream that someday their descendants would be warm, well-fed and secure against nature. Considering that your forebears just a century ago had an average lifespan of 46 years and often shivered during winters while eating mostly salt-preserved food, try to get through turkey day without complaining about anything, okay? Happy Throwback Thanksgiving!"