September 14, 2012
America is global progressivism up to the transformation of progress itself into new forms adequate to the world that progress has made, against the main alternative outcome of progress: extinction.
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October 3, 2010
If conservatives are wrong about everything else, they may be right about this one underlying fact: A certain idea of American greatness may be slipping into the past. From that perspective, "steady incremental decline" may even begin to look like one of the better open paths.
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On “In the future everybody will be right about Iraq for fifteen minutes”
a concept?
like Hell!
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you assume that in the future there will be an Iraq?
On “Open Thread”
Iraq was built on oppression of the majority and stayed that way till the US further screwed it up.
Maliki is so bad that he might as well be Karzai.
as Robert Cray might say....The Forecast Calls for Pain.
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The Iraqi ambassador to the United States is warning that the Islamic extremists overrunning his country will commit "ethnic cleansing" unless the Obama administration helps stop them.
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apples rejected, and an ante-coital evening of absinthe and Anasazi art appreciation.
I await the appearance of the no-shit Sherlock.... and his Sussex Vampire
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Dorian Gray's sex scene with the consumptive ------
gotta admit that was whipped up right smartly.
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there are two good reasons for seeing her in The Dreamers and there's also the pleasure having hearing her speak in her native French.
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I've seen most all of it. quite a bit of whipped cream atop it, but haven't yet seen the cake.
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forget Penny Dreadful.
dig up The Dreamers
On ““the belief that gay people are evil””
you can be found wanting because your argumentation is shoddy and not because of other things.
if my son were to come home and announce that he had just married Chris Hedges I would strenuously object to the union
On “Open Thread”
Scott the not-lout sure should be a happy little Clips fan tonight.
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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 “Liberals against Liberalism (Chait’s Insanity)”
suggest you check the disposition of the suit, miggs..... I seem to remember it being dismissed as groundless.
and thanks tadpole was one of five Guardian reporters to be nominated and to win
http://www.pulitzer.org/files/2014/public-service/guardianus/guardianusletter.pdf
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Rauf, merely a figurehead being used as a fundraiser and spokesman was fired by the guy who controlled the project the property, Sharif El-Gamal, after Rauf was smeared and smacked around in the press
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 “The sanity of Chait’s “complete insanity” (race in contemporary American politics)”
no, we're not. we were mainly not trying not to mention the tadpole's getting a piece of a Pulitzer.
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2014-Public-Service-Group2
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