A Deep Green Snot
Oh my, it's a new month. Been a long while since I've bothered to blog. Dang.
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Unbelievably (to me, at least) I'm just getting over a week long SUMMER cold. Into the final stages though, as marked by the fluorescent arrival of heavy green snot.
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Speaking of nasal drips, Jack Layton suggested recently we should negotiate with the Taliban. Sigh. Yes, yes, they had "legitimacy" as the governing power of a country, but surely in a fanatical way -- I was "for" military intervention long before 9/11 given the Taliban's treatment of women and the final straw of bombing the Bamiyan Buddhist statues -- any regime that systematically persecutes their citizens (and specific groups of those citizens especially) or has negative respect for cultural artifacts... Well, what (better) reason to send in the Marines, perhaps. Anyway, if fanaticism is marked by a single thing it's the refusal to listen to any other position, let alone move toward compromise. So, Jack? Negotiate what? We'll stop attacking their positions in Afghanistan and they'll do what, believe in secular government, the rule of law and offer 36% female composition in their interim government cabinet (but all other women will be subject to arbitrary violence)?
I hate when bad strategic (absent) thinking pushes me right along the political continuum.
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Been meaning to blog about the time I quite nearly killed my father. Next time, maybe.
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Unbelievably (to me, at least) I'm just getting over a week long SUMMER cold. Into the final stages though, as marked by the fluorescent arrival of heavy green snot.
~ ~ ~
Speaking of nasal drips, Jack Layton suggested recently we should negotiate with the Taliban. Sigh. Yes, yes, they had "legitimacy" as the governing power of a country, but surely in a fanatical way -- I was "for" military intervention long before 9/11 given the Taliban's treatment of women and the final straw of bombing the Bamiyan Buddhist statues -- any regime that systematically persecutes their citizens (and specific groups of those citizens especially) or has negative respect for cultural artifacts... Well, what (better) reason to send in the Marines, perhaps. Anyway, if fanaticism is marked by a single thing it's the refusal to listen to any other position, let alone move toward compromise. So, Jack? Negotiate what? We'll stop attacking their positions in Afghanistan and they'll do what, believe in secular government, the rule of law and offer 36% female composition in their interim government cabinet (but all other women will be subject to arbitrary violence)?
I hate when bad strategic (absent) thinking pushes me right along the political continuum.
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Been meaning to blog about the time I quite nearly killed my father. Next time, maybe.
posted by Heipel at
10:51 AM
2 Comments:
I am glad you are almost getting over the cold. That wasn't fun for sure.
What's up with that father comment??? scary.
Steve, Just watched Paikin's new show last night. Very good, as expected. Addressed just that issue of the misconception people have about the whole mid-east issue and how to resolve it. I know this is responding to an archieve blog, nothing seems to change.
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