tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post689208794421413587..comments2024-03-18T19:37:21.040-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Armies of the Blind Clashing by NightGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26063217776482015062011-03-04T12:17:38.446-08:002011-03-04T12:17:38.446-08:00Mizze - your comment went poof, but my email saw i...Mizze - your comment went poof, but my email saw it anyway. (And as an aside, has Blogger <i>always</i> been this selectively prudish? I guess it's just further proof that complexity doesn't equal intelligence. When it can understand context instead of just blocking certain words or phrases, I'll start wondering if artificial intelligence is possible.)<br /><br />Anyway, just wow. When I was in high school and jr. high, [reproductive] ed seemed to be at a pretty decent balance: What <i>had</i> to be said was said, but for the most part it was left to the imagination. I can't even fathom sitting in a class and being provided that sort of prurient and <i>depersonalizing</i> information. When nothing is secret, nothing is sacred.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35750719244641738542011-03-04T09:58:23.887-08:002011-03-04T09:58:23.887-08:00Dennis Prager made a very brief but profound comme...Dennis Prager made a very brief but profound comment the other day: if we agree that it isn't a good idea to mix religion and state, how is it a good idea to mix education and the state? For the result is the same, i.e., an ideology in service to the state.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66512467406762281462011-03-04T09:54:53.850-08:002011-03-04T09:54:53.850-08:00You're welcome Julie. Now see this. Perfect,...You're welcome Julie. Now see <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/schools-need-to-teach-about-orgasms-says-us-teachers-union-to-un" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Perfect, in your face, illustration of "The modern West’s dirty little secret is that it does not want any more secrets."Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27550259200940360132011-03-04T07:43:18.883-08:002011-03-04T07:43:18.883-08:00In fact, from the end of the column:
"The mo...In fact, from the end of the column:<br /><br />"The modern West’s dirty little secret is that <i>it does not want any more secrets.</i>"<br /><br />Yep.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26270590870775104922011-03-04T07:27:32.187-08:002011-03-04T07:27:32.187-08:00Mizze - that's the most tasteful and thoughtfu...Mizze - that's the most tasteful and thoughtful column I've yet seen on the subject. Thanks.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71315548432218443182011-03-04T05:50:15.747-08:002011-03-04T05:50:15.747-08:00On a decidedly more sober note……..
The results of...On a decidedly more sober note……..<br /><br /><i>The results of modern “liberation” make us remember with nostalgia the abolished “bourgeois hypocrisies.” </i>- Don Colacho<br /><br /><a href="http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2011/03/stoic-sex-in-evanston/" rel="nofollow">INDEED!</a>Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18713899343512873582011-03-04T05:34:56.026-08:002011-03-04T05:34:56.026-08:00Moron! I told Dupree to chase the communist metro...Moron! I told Dupree to chase the communist metrosexuals from DC, not to chase commuters from the DC metro station.Peteynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90843559129522427352011-03-04T05:22:50.575-08:002011-03-04T05:22:50.575-08:00Breaking Morning News: The DC chapter is having s...Breaking Morning News: <a href="http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/raccoons-chasing-people-from-dc-metro-station-030411" rel="nofollow">The DC chapter is having some fun with the peeps.</a>Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71578328963986416542011-03-03T17:28:05.301-08:002011-03-03T17:28:05.301-08:00JWM said "They are feasting on anger and envy...JWM said "They are feasting on anger and envy, and grow hungrier with every mouthful. They don't have to wait for the inferno. In them it is made manifest right here on earth."<br /><br />I suspect that if the kingdom of heaven is at hand... so too with the alternative.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-733860878579830052011-03-03T17:25:43.728-08:002011-03-03T17:25:43.728-08:00JWM - indeed, they create their own hell, then try...JWM - indeed, they create their own hell, then try to drag everyone else into it.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26367415389356320442011-03-03T17:25:01.867-08:002011-03-03T17:25:01.867-08:00Off topic, but Father Stephen has an excerpt of a ...Off topic, but Father Stephen has an excerpt of a fine essay on <a href="http://fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/inner-stillness/" rel="nofollow">inner stillness here</a>. He also provides a link to a pdf of the whole thing, which looks to be longish but I suspect it's well worth the time to read.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56659416781368284062011-03-03T16:45:40.045-08:002011-03-03T16:45:40.045-08:00Julie, I applaud your endurance. I lasted less tha...Julie, I applaud your endurance. I lasted less than three minutes on the video. But it shows you whom and what we are facing. I remember being young(er) and idealistic in my own fashion, but I would have called out this kind of BS even in my teens. It's more than a little disturbing to actually listen to people who believe the kind of evil nonsense. What kind of world do they think they want to live in?<br />The impression I get is that all of these morons are empty inside. Hollow. They are feasting on anger and envy, and grow hungrier with every mouthful.<br />They don't have to wait for the inferno. In them it is made manifest right here on earth.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27266675625125979192011-03-03T15:34:40.795-08:002011-03-03T15:34:40.795-08:00Leave it to a troll to see anarchy as being a guts...Leave it to a troll to see anarchy as being a gutsy alternative to medicare and medicaid.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37302030370867479602011-03-03T15:21:06.730-08:002011-03-03T15:21:06.730-08:00Political differnces in this country are demonstra...Political differnces in this country are demonstrably paltry.<br /><br />Even the most committed right wing yahoo won't sign on for a completely unregulated society.<br /><br />State operated security forces, road builiding and maintenance, water service, etc, are tolerated as a matter of course.<br /><br />Taxes get meekly paid and society gets on about its socialist rounds. <br /><br />There's no radicalism even when there pretends to be. <br /><br />What does a racoon want in terms of political change?<br /><br />A whole lotta nothin', really. Just business as usual. <br /><br />Police, fire, water, transit services. Check, check, and check. Medicare and Medicaid. Check, check. yawn.Good Bass Fisher, LIkes my Comic Booksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36063956644123241702011-03-03T11:54:15.572-08:002011-03-03T11:54:15.572-08:00"What is it about mundane politics that fasci..."What is it about mundane politics that fascinates people? As I've mentioned before, the more "political" one is in the vulgar sense of the word, the more politics is merely a kind of existential container to organize one's psychic and emotional life. "<br /><br />You've got that right, and from what I can see, being on the Right is no barrier to that. As I've been getting more and more involved, I've come across plenty of people who, though they may be Right on the issues, the extent they allow those issues to shape their lives, is just plain wrong. The tar gets <i>every</i>where, and it taks jugs of goo-gone and lots of scrubbing to keep it off of you.<br /><br />"However, the difference between the contemporary left and right is that conservatism is based on ideas and principles, whereas liberalism is rooted in raw power and self-interest concealed beneath a lot of pseudo-ideals. "<br /><br />Yep. And awareness of that, constantly checking to see that what you are doing complies with the first, and doesn't rely on the second, is the only way to keep out of the tar pits.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43639212413607907592011-03-03T11:51:09.547-08:002011-03-03T11:51:09.547-08:00Julie-
So, in addition to "Thank you for not ...Julie-<br />So, in addition to "Thank you for not making Renaissance Faire character a career choice", I see I need to put "Thank you for not bringing Noodle Cook home" on youngest d's list of "Thanks for not _____".Salhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13201226644704622876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23371392891414027052011-03-03T10:30:53.251-08:002011-03-03T10:30:53.251-08:00Julie, leftists, too, try to buy their way to what...Julie, leftists, too, try to buy their way to what they conceive of as salvation - mafia dons use blood money, leftists use other people's money.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44831774678012373222011-03-03T10:02:10.117-08:002011-03-03T10:02:10.117-08:00Mafiosi are capitalists free of any restraints. Y...Mafiosi are capitalists free of any restraints. You should revere them; they despise leftists except when they can control unions for profit.<br /><br />Welcome to lassaiz-faire heaven just try not to get whacked.Berti from Joiseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27746043246653312972011-03-03T10:02:06.297-08:002011-03-03T10:02:06.297-08:00Will, maybe so. They must think that the afterlife...Will, maybe so. They must think that the afterlife is a commodity that can be hustled just like anything else. Actually, I guess there are quite a lot of people who view the cosmos that way. Poor fools.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78841542070028972122011-03-03T09:57:35.299-08:002011-03-03T09:57:35.299-08:00Julie -
I think the mafia dons believe that thei...Julie - <br /><br />I think the mafia dons believe that their donations to the Church buy them salvation. It's the old Medieval practice of indulgences, in effect.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71821290509000886022011-03-03T09:43:53.152-08:002011-03-03T09:43:53.152-08:00Ms. Molly, maybe he was just hoping to experience ...Ms. Molly, maybe he was just hoping to experience the healing power of your <a href="http://americandigest.org/sidelines/2011/03/#a013991" rel="nofollow">rack</a>.That's What She Saidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81391817117201488612011-03-03T09:40:21.888-08:002011-03-03T09:40:21.888-08:00One more observation, then I'll shut up for a ...One more observation, then I'll shut up for a bit -<br /><br />Thinking of organized crime, I've often found it baffling how members of the Italian and Irish mobs can be so devoutly Catholic and yet so blatantly evil. I suppose they're like Geryon that way - masks of humanity covering reptilian or even insectile beings.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51510253319656323732011-03-03T09:36:55.781-08:002011-03-03T09:36:55.781-08:00Hierarchy is good as long as males don't try t...Hierarchy is good as long as males don't try to get one-up on the ladies power wise.<br /><br />I'm not having any more of that. I make money, take of myself, etc.<br /><br />Some guy tried to grope me the other day and I smashed him one with my purse. He acted offended. Imagine that, the nerve.Good Golly ms. Mollynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66637929873109647192011-03-03T09:31:31.801-08:002011-03-03T09:31:31.801-08:00The left opposes all natural hierarchies, and repl...<i>The left opposes all natural hierarchies, and replaces them with a simplistic and artificial binary of race, or class, or gender, or sexual orientation. </i><br /><br />Without hierarchy, there can be no harmelody of life; it would be as though everyone were trying to play the same note, with no discernable rhythm.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86204832153510588622011-03-03T09:28:42.077-08:002011-03-03T09:28:42.077-08:00Georgia Wash never gets his due. His ability to ha...Georgia Wash never gets his due. His ability to have T Jeff and Al Ham at one table and tell them each in turn to put a sock in it has never been equaled. <br /><br />Fascinating series, Bob.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.com