Now for something (slightly) different
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pecuniumI am ambivalent about the war.
I can hear the gasps of shock, and surprise at this revelation.
I think this was, to quote somone else, "The wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time." I also think we've screwed the pooch and even an effective cleaning up won't be immediate (though it ought not take years, this isn't the former Jugoslavia, yet).
I dislike how the Right is using the war.
And I don't like Bill O'Reilly. I think him a fat-headed bag of wind, who manages to use Limbaughean tactic in person, which is even more offensive than in the passive abuse delivered to callers who've been hung up on.
So I like to see him euchred, as Scott Ritter did (the trick with O'Reilly is to spot the dead cat, or as someone said elsewhere, to deny Milton Friedman the liberty of defining the terms).
Last week a Quaker did the same.
A Friendly Letter [This is not a permanent link, so if it's changed go to Feb 25, 2005]
The show was about, sort of, Ward Churchill, but it was, so Chuck Fager, thinks, about supressing dissent.
If nothing else, it's an interesting account of what it's like to be on O'Reilly.
I can hear the gasps of shock, and surprise at this revelation.
I think this was, to quote somone else, "The wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time." I also think we've screwed the pooch and even an effective cleaning up won't be immediate (though it ought not take years, this isn't the former Jugoslavia, yet).
I dislike how the Right is using the war.
And I don't like Bill O'Reilly. I think him a fat-headed bag of wind, who manages to use Limbaughean tactic in person, which is even more offensive than in the passive abuse delivered to callers who've been hung up on.
So I like to see him euchred, as Scott Ritter did (the trick with O'Reilly is to spot the dead cat, or as someone said elsewhere, to deny Milton Friedman the liberty of defining the terms).
Last week a Quaker did the same.
A Friendly Letter [This is not a permanent link, so if it's changed go to Feb 25, 2005]
The show was about, sort of, Ward Churchill, but it was, so Chuck Fager, thinks, about supressing dissent.
If nothing else, it's an interesting account of what it's like to be on O'Reilly.
Current Quote: "Quakers historically are pacifist and don’t like war. And we understand that, everybody understands that, and I think it’s respected."
-- Bill O'Reilly, FOX News, February 23, 2005
