Over at Epiphany in C, there’s A Modest Proposal for the Military Industrial Complex posted by speed of Dave. The scary bit is that he’s hit the nail on the head in terms of the kinds of logic used to justify war abroad. Worth a read. Here’s a taste: To all of you who are in the business of blowing things up (people, buildings, etc), I want you to know that I understand that you need to make large sums of money in order to do so. Being that this is the case, and that I would hate to rob …
Tag: politics
Too Expensive, but…
I don’t smoke, and I never will, but I still want these WWII Anti-Axis propaganda ashtrays. I wonder if there’d be any market for knockoffs, or something similar, but with contemporary figures. I betcha bin Laden ashtrays would sell well. And Bush ones, too.
Two More Via Ritu…
A Fatwa against terrorism was recently issued in India: Maulana Khalid Rashid of the 300-year-old Dar-ul-Itfa Firangi Mahal, one of the most conservative and most respected seminaries in the country has issued a fatwa against terrorists. And on a different line of thought, Nehru’s interview with Playboy magazine. As Ritu points out, the man himself was a playboy, so it makes a kind of sense. But whatever you think of Nehru, can you imagine any contemporary Western leader saying the following: Many years ago I read in the writings of George Bernard Shaw a passage that moved me and found …
Good Night and Good Luck
I watched the film Good Night and Good Luck the other night, and, well, it’s very obvious why a film about that ridiculous monster McCarthy had to be made now. This came to my mind as I read a post over at LocoMote which, honestly, I misread the first time I saw it. But I have noticed that people are still being polite to the legions of morons who think the Iraq Invasion was a sane, reasonable action. Why are they being polite? Why are people still being apologetic for their honesty? Why is this even a concern? There have …
For those with doubts about evolution…
Check out this pithy Doonesbury. Via Ritu’s LJ.