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Friday, May 11. 2007Friday Afternoon LinksAdding to blogroll: Theo Spark, under Anglosphere. The charmer on the right with the very nice smile is borrowed from Theo, who posts lots of mostly-political graphics. Hmmmm, is the pool open yet? Where my Ray-Bans at? So I can stare without anyone noticing. Ya gotta love this globalisticalistic warmening. Also adding to blogroll: No Left Turns. Also, re-adding to blogroll: Right Thinking from the Left Coast. We lost Lee somewhere along the way. Disaffected youths hold anti-Sarkozy riots in New York City. Haha. What is Babelgum? It is something new. Doomsday Called Off. The five-part CBC documentary, via S,C &A. The health Nazis now going after virtual smoke. RTLC. I am so sick of these controlling busybodies. Quit trying to "do good" for me, OK? I am an educated adult in a free country, which includes the freedom to be stupid and to defy "the experts" whenever I feel like it. NBC hires "Diversity Leader." Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Does anyone take this junk seriously? Michelle. It's called a payoff to Jesse Jackson, and everybody knows it. US cancer care 10X better than the UK. Anchoress Also from Anchoress, Class and Class Warfare. Anchoress appreciates true class. Oral sex can lead to throat cancer? Our reader suggests reading the humorous comments on this scare piece, but I will not go down on record by opening my mouth about this story. Sisu and Roger Simon are upset about PBS' cancelling of America at a Crossroads. I understand their point, but I don't watch TV, much less PBS, anyway. It's a waste of time. A gunless gunship. In From the Cold. (h/t, Reader) LA Charter Schools, and Steve Barr. The District and the unions hate him. Barr had the cojones to wonder whether the school district leaders are "pig f-ers." Nobody likes competition, but government hates it more than most because they like to think they are smarter than everyone else. And they are smart, when it comes to taking care of themselves. Politics is a very ugly business.
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You scrolled all the way through Theo's sight, didn't you? ;-D There is nothing I appreciate more than an honest, dogged, committed researcher. Press on! (As it were.) Holy Moley
uh, did I already say that? excuse me; be back in a sec. reminds me of my favorite Roman Emperor, Gluteus Maximus.
RTLC item: "I tell you, if the movie industry could just figure out a way to get people to shut the fuck up during the films—you know, like with an usher—maybe more people would go." I'd be a candidate it they did. Although from what I hear the bulk of the movies are so empty I'd be cautious.
Am I back here, again?
Why do I keep ending up back here? Oh, yeah excuse me for a second; be right back She doesn't move around that much--she's still holding down that chair every time i check--
Sorry for the seriousness. But it just seems odd to me that as a logical and science based society we appear unable to use a quantifiable and algorithmic regime to settle many questions. Second hand or 'virtual' smoke, gunships, educated kids, cancer cures. Isn't anyone taking notes? Notes on what has worked and what hasn't.
I'm all for trying damn near anything. But we need to jot down the mistakes, a giant database of errors as it where. Call it idiotspace. Some early entrants, communism, socialism, violence based religions. Many more minor examples of course. Power, I think, is one of the problems. We endow too many with too much of it. The closest example, to me, is the periodic changing of 'HMFIC' of our military branches. If there is any one institution that should have been taking notes all these years, it is the U.S. Military. Yet, every three, four or five years a new guy gets the reins and decides, all by his lonesome self, what the "New" direction should be. Right down to the 'Tee' shirt, great controversy in my time over 'V' neck versus 'Round' neck. This is asinine and a waste of time and energy. Now I find myself eating my tail, re the great dragon. Individual initiative and chance for positive change, versus bureaucratic sameness and downward spiral. It is most difficult to separate out the difference at times. OK, now back to that chair... Luther said:
Quote Sorry for the seriousness. But it just seems odd to me that as a logical and science based society we appear unable to use a quantifiable and algorithmic regime to settle many questions. Second hand or 'virtual' smoke, gunships, educated kids, cancer cures. Isn't anyone taking notes? Notes on what has worked and what hasn't. Unquote. No, we don't take notes (really would like to say "they don't" because I actually know people who do. and no, we don't learn (not so sure about the disclaimer this time.) We passed the Volstead Act, learn nothing from the experience (at least nothing that lasted past the revocation of it). We built the Berlin and San Diego Walls. We launched the War on Drugs. We launched the War on Poverty. We launched the War on Guns, The War on Speeders. The War on Truck Drivers. The War on Academic Freedom. No. We don't pay attention and we damned sure don't learn. Maybe this will work.
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20070512/cx_lc_uc/lc20070512;_ylt=AqJor.7iA9UJBE2J10pP_Qc_ocwF Among those idiotspaces, communism is pretty serious--unless you bust out laughing in glee that we have somehow avoided it (so far):
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=13708 Not that I am unaware BL. But...informative, even, great link. More than that of course. Direct repudiation of every damn leftist/socialist/communist out there. Puts a harsh on my optimism it does. "Eyeglasses" for GD sake. So many followers of an absolutely failed and murderous ideology. Even in the deepest depths of my 'McGovern' days, I did not know I was allowing this, but yet I did. Shows the power of media, if nothing else. And how ignorance is bliss.
But damnit, how does one enlighten the forty-nine percent? Consider the millennia required to destroy the notion of the god-king. It then took the First World War to destroy, once for all, the legitimacy of hereditary monarchy. Communism may have been dealt a fatal blow in Europe, and it may eventually suffer the same fate in Asia, but Western intellectuals remain smitten with its “benign” sibling, Socialism. It may take centuries of unrelenting struggle to finally have done with these evils. En masse, humanities learning curve rises almost imperceptibly.
That is depressing, isn’t it? But it is hard to argue with history. Therefore, I suggest enlightenment, if such is possible, will take place one man at a time, one generation at a time. Yes Allen, I have always been a fan of the incremental, the slowly but surely. And everyone always thinks there moment in the sun, is the only moment there is. But there is now a quickening pace, it seems. The destructive impulse so much more doable. It is time, not fruit, emanating from the horn.
Everyone is right about that moment in the sun, except for the forgetting about that "moment" part. How many men have been overwhelmed by the messianic urge; and how many men have been driven to it by the adulation of the time?
I think I am going to just look at the pictures from now on. ;-D A women at the beach wearing a thong bikini walked by a young boy, who had never seen a thong before. After staring at the sight briefly, he shouted at the young woman,"HEY LADY, YOUR BUTTS EATING YOUR BATHING SUIT!".
Am I back here, again?
How did that happen? I musta got lost. Yeah, that's it; I got lost. yeah |