For Pete's sake, don't tell me...if you vote for Romney, the black sun will not be amused.
Just reading Ignatieff's wonderfully acrobatic mea culpa in the NYTimes. What an ass! Simply loved his book, The Needs of Strangers, but the guy's a dickhead. He's tried to name-drop his way out of his own idiocy, citing Kant, Beckett, and God knows who else. Political theory, 'judgement', and all that jazz. The simple truth, though, is that he couldn't see what any five year-old could: the war against Iraq was a looney escapade cooked up by a bunch of vicious, nasty and insidious ideologues.
In a similar vein, you often hear people making all kinds of excuses for the rise of fanaticism. Firstly, there isn't really any such thing as 'fundamentalism' or if there is then that's a good thing: be true to the fundamentals and put to one side (read: destroy/destory) all this farangi nonsense and bastardization of culture. Secondly, there's no way a "real" Muslim could commit such atrocious acts so it must be...drum roll...those Amrikis/Hindus/Joos. Of course, if you could actually realize you were delusional you probably wouldn't be delusional in the first place. Or maybe you would, if you were schizophrenic.
Watching CNN's "analysis" is always good for a laugh. Reading Phelps's awful trash, 'Innovation and Morality'. It is painful to think this guy is an academic. Here's a classic line from it:
"There's something revealing in the fact that European society has birth rates so low. It suggests that Europe lacks a sense of opportunity for a rewarding, challenging, fulfilling life."
I kid thee not. Then again, could it be something to with average breast size, Mr. Phelps?
And there are more nuggets of wisdom from the Nobel-prize winner:
"You can see the stultifying economy on the faces of the young people in Europe, many of whom would dearly like to get out."
Oh, I dunno, some of the faces I've seen in Europe are positively charming, old bean. Can you think of any more inane generalizations. There is a lot to be gleaned from the back of cornflakes packets, Phelpsy.
It's not surprising, really, that there should be so little sympathy for the social welfare state or its underlying philosophy (what Phelps might call Communism). Because that would mean recognizing there are alternative ways to live, to organize a society, instead of falling back on the old cliche that my way is the best way (a rather irritating tick the human species seems to have). In that sense, not too different from Muslim and Jewish nutters: we, the chosen ones, have seen the path (nay, verily verily, we are the path).
Just reading Ignatieff's wonderfully acrobatic mea culpa in the NYTimes. What an ass! Simply loved his book, The Needs of Strangers, but the guy's a dickhead. He's tried to name-drop his way out of his own idiocy, citing Kant, Beckett, and God knows who else. Political theory, 'judgement', and all that jazz. The simple truth, though, is that he couldn't see what any five year-old could: the war against Iraq was a looney escapade cooked up by a bunch of vicious, nasty and insidious ideologues.
In a similar vein, you often hear people making all kinds of excuses for the rise of fanaticism. Firstly, there isn't really any such thing as 'fundamentalism' or if there is then that's a good thing: be true to the fundamentals and put to one side (read: destroy/destory) all this farangi nonsense and bastardization of culture. Secondly, there's no way a "real" Muslim could commit such atrocious acts so it must be...drum roll...those Amrikis/Hindus/Joos. Of course, if you could actually realize you were delusional you probably wouldn't be delusional in the first place. Or maybe you would, if you were schizophrenic.
Watching CNN's "analysis" is always good for a laugh. Reading Phelps's awful trash, 'Innovation and Morality'. It is painful to think this guy is an academic. Here's a classic line from it:
"There's something revealing in the fact that European society has birth rates so low. It suggests that Europe lacks a sense of opportunity for a rewarding, challenging, fulfilling life."
I kid thee not. Then again, could it be something to with average breast size, Mr. Phelps?
And there are more nuggets of wisdom from the Nobel-prize winner:
"You can see the stultifying economy on the faces of the young people in Europe, many of whom would dearly like to get out."
Oh, I dunno, some of the faces I've seen in Europe are positively charming, old bean. Can you think of any more inane generalizations. There is a lot to be gleaned from the back of cornflakes packets, Phelpsy.
It's not surprising, really, that there should be so little sympathy for the social welfare state or its underlying philosophy (what Phelps might call Communism). Because that would mean recognizing there are alternative ways to live, to organize a society, instead of falling back on the old cliche that my way is the best way (a rather irritating tick the human species seems to have). In that sense, not too different from Muslim and Jewish nutters: we, the chosen ones, have seen the path (nay, verily verily, we are the path).
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