April 9, 2010
The comforting exaggerations and ideological short-cuts, historical curse words, the imputation of the the worst imaginable intentions to all political adversaries, reflect an unreformed, self-defeating desperation. Maybe, as Goldberg writes in the last paragraph of Liberal Fascism, when protesting the other side's insulting tactics, it's past time to cry, "Enough!"
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February 1, 2013
The eternal crosses infinitely all the way over to us on the finite cross. Even against the definitional and lethal disagreements within and between the Abrahamic faiths on instantiations of eternity, or finitizations of infinity, or mortalities of the immortal, the structure of the central question, as a dichotomy to be resolved into a unity, from incarnation to crucifixion to resurrection, survives all answering exclusions. We can even begin with the atheistic or heretical counter-narratives that insist that indispensable parts of the greatest story were merely story, that the humanly fallible texts amount to a pre-capitalist commodification for “franchising” purposes. Even the falsehood of the tale would precisely on its own level magnify it, as the greatest lie ever believed, in this the only world the closest a disenchanted perspective can approach to miracle.
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On “Open Thread”
Scott's not a lout!
have a care, sir. have a care
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thanks for the good news. perhaps Scott will be heartened by Sterling's getting a lifetime ban from the Clips.
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I watched Garrett Richards pitch very well for the Angels yesterday and it made me think of Scott
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accessorize very carefully
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not complicated a tall
read the essay and was a tiny bit surprised. happily.
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I can't imagine that you would require any aid in going to his blog, reading the thing, and reacting
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did you read and develop an opinion of Slater's "The Debate Over BDS"?
On “The sanity of Chait’s “complete insanity” (race in contemporary American politics)”
heck, I spent my first dozen years living in a project.
but, yeah, I do, thx.
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thanks, bob
things have been a bit rough and I've been at a loss.
On “Open Thread”
fer as I know
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Saudi Prince Bandar promised a victory he could not deliver..... and now he gone
On “Standing athwart themselves”
almost every minute godless savages and idolaters crash through our borders, borders that a cowardly incompetent bloated and socialist administration barely pretends to defend, and seize innocent and blonde Christian women and children and in pagan cruelty, hurls these innocent souls over the edge of the Earth.
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the inner empire of reagan idolatry
On “Tod Kelly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. vs. Richard Cohen”
Coates on Baldwin, anyone?
On “The Iran Deal Concretely”
I'm nothing if not non-sarcastic
On “Open Thread”
It was after that night that Yossarian realized that the fish dreams were indicative of a real problem.
On “Israel’s “Wig-Out””
I would think that an Israeli strike in Iran in defiance of the US government's expressed wishes would probably be concurrent with Israel launching nuclear attacks on Washington and New York.
This would serve to confuse and silence people likely to disapprove and criticize the strike on Iran.
On “Tod Kelly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. vs. Richard Cohen”
feel free to point out the pieces of peanut among the mass...
On “Open Thread”
I was just gonna fire up twitter and thank you..... but this is far more convenient.
gotta say that the chap in the pic sure knows have to sit a beetle....
On “Tod Kelly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. vs. Richard Cohen”
did your discussion involve .......
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
On “Open Thread”
lord knows that I enjoy teasing miggs, and he gets up your nose far more than mine.
but you guys seem not to be overdoing it at all.
On “Tod Kelly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. vs. Richard Cohen”
it was a false, silly and needless controversy
On “Open Thread”
here's one Frankfurt book that fits you here.....
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Groucho: He died too soon, too soon!
Chico: Yeah, an hour too soon.
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with the NFL lately drafting German nationals, I was trying to envision it on a jersey, but I'm guessing that even the hardiest and experienced equipment managers, guys who went through and weathered Fuamatu-Ma'afala and Houshmandzadeh will pull out