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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Gail Collins in the New York Times, 22 Nov, "Time For Him To Go", where she makes a reasoned argument for Bush and Cheney to resign IMMEDIATELY and hand over charge to Nancy Pelosi, so that the Obama program could start rightaway. (See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/opinion/22collins.html?em)
Also worth reading: the Readers' Comments on the article (some 500-odd of them, I believe). The overwhelming majority of readers seemed to support Gail Collins' recommendations!! (Unlikely though it is that GW Bush and Gang would take up these recommendations).
[Check out: http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/11/22/opinion/22collins.html?s=1&pg=1)
[In fact, a very sizable number of readers actually want GW Bush and Gang impeached, thrown into prison, and so on - but that kind of action has already been 'taken off the table by Nancy Pelosi].
GSC
You can go to the delli sir and have a schmaltz sandwich and some cream soda, sir, instead of ridiculing someone with an unfortunate case of dyslexia, which, after much work on my part, and without any gooberment assistance, has been mostly overcome to the point I only transpose the l and the h in your not so lovely capital city with starving cows wandering around in the streets, elephants being beaten before everyones eyes, and tens of thousands of people sleeping on the sidewalks and by the side of the road.
No, Delhi is no April in Paris, sir.
So, you simply spout Anti American rubbish, midst a chorus of a few hundred liberals who will never understand why their outlook is fundamentally klueless.
You foam at the mouth at my great country while ignoring your own sorry land's eternal bad karma, sir.
Why do you think all the smartest and most industrious people in your country dream of coming to America where they can get rich and do get rich through their own efforts, and not because they are the idiot son in law of some politician in Mumbai, Gopi?
Did you not see "The Namesake," probably one of the loveliest films made about this wonderful country called America, warts and all. We are still a beacon of light and freedom to all of the world for anyone willing to work for a living. This may be impossible for you, sir, if you are one of hundreds of thousands of middle level Indian bureaucrats who sleep walk through their petty jobs each day and who live much better than your hundreds of millions of struggling masses,
So, you should consider coming to America, and really doing something with your life someday, instead of being an annoying, self-important twit, screaming at a high pitch alla da
time.
How about a little Yoga, sir?
Pranayama is very good for the mind and spirit too,
I'm now libergressive - inward, downward, backward, dissolute, with both progressive and liberal amounts of burning-your-candle-at-both-ends piled on high.
Mmmmm, it's the American way.
*Yeeehaw!*
I tuned out of this treatise in the second paragraph, when the author referred to "a former Texas rock band's clever name: Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Dope." The band is the Austin Lounge Lizards, they are not a rock band, they still exist, and the song is "Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs." This may seem a minor concern, but getting simple facts straight is a sign of meaningful communication.
In perusing the rest of the article, I found it to be a pretty meaningless exercise in semantics. The polar ice caps are melting. The worldwide mass economic system is collapsing. Our system of social order is disintegrating. There are too many people on the planet. We are threatened by pandemics of uncontrollable diseases. Usable resources are becoming depleted, especially oil and water. To spend one's energy on semantics is just plain stupid.
If we want a term for advancing human existence on this planet, how about civilizationist? From this perspective, policies and programs would focus on what makes possible and improves human civilization. Old dichotomies like "left" and "right," "liberal" and "conservative" would no longer have any relevance. Actually, they have no relevance now, except in the minds of their believers. These divides are models of reality, and have outlived their usefulness.
"Conservatism" in particular is now in disgrace. It is really just a euphemism for mafia, a loose confederation of crony capitalists, religious fanatics, and war enthusiasts. That doesn't make "liberalism" the honorable alternative. What brought disrepute to "liberalism" in the past was the paternalism and coercive nature of its practice. School busing is the most glaring example. It's a pretty Neanderthal approach: Ugh! Integration good! Busing make integration! Let's bus! Meanwhile, the condition of the vast majority of "African Americans" continues to decline.
Looking at the mass information media as a benchmark of our level of civilization, the mere fact that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly are even on the air speaks volumes about the challenge we face. We may not live to see an advanced civilization, but we can at least move in that direction if we shed the chains of past mental constraints.
But you can call yourself whatever you like :)
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
