Letters to the Editor
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Sigh....
Well the grammarians'll get me for that last comment. Plural subject, singular verb, unidiomatic use of prepositions, butchered German words. Sometimes I really hate the much vaunted immediacy of blogging. One of the blogs I was checking out a couple of days ago uses WordPress, and has activated a feature in the software which allows the author of a comment to edit it up to ten minutes after posting it. Now that would be a real boon. I hope it becomes universal.
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Even on blogger..
allows the author of a comment to edit it up to ten minutes after posting it. Now that would be a real boon. I hope it becomes universal.
We had the opportunity to delete our own comments. My SOP used to be to post - proofread - repost corrected then delete the original.
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@Paul Rosenberg (claims Vietnam was the Republicans fault)
St. Paul "... There is little point in trying to dialogue with bucky1. He doesn't believe in dialogue. He believes this is his blog, and we are all here to hang on his every word. ..."
That is a blatant lie. You know it, and that makes it all the worse. First, you have never tried dialogue; you only invite others to agree with you. Point two, Glenn is a favorite blogger among libertarians and even is featured often at Lew Rockwell's site. I would never think of his blog as my own. In fact, oh sainted one, it was only after I mentioned that we were not helping Glenn out much that you decided to pretend that I was a troll and call a halt. Odd, the timing. Plus, I only responded to comments addressed to me . Plus, I did not carry it into day two until your little buddy did. Now you seem to be looking for day three, since he has decided we can try to be reasonable. Some saint, indeed.
So, I'll ask you directly: do you want to stop attacking the man as you just did in that last post, or only pretend to want to act correctly? Answer please.
Paul: ... "It would be one thing if LBJ had wanted the Vietnam War, but it's been quite clear since at least the late 1990s that he didn't want the war, he felt forced into it by the threat of resurgent McCarthyism. He was, in short, a tragic figure, in the classical sense of the term--a great, but flawed man. ...
The most utter codswallop I have seen on this board. You must apologise to shooter immediately for ever questioning the rationality of his insights!
I have an uncle that lost a leg (and more) in that little conflict. He has lived in pain for decades so the secular god you worship could look manly? You are going to pretend the Democrats were blameless in Nam?!? I can not believe that you could have swallowed the "Democrats are always right" to the hilt of the blade.
Glenn, does this not count as the same thing that the Republicans are trying to pull with Bush and his war? Tying to re-write history. Trying to claim LBJ was a great man. Blame Nam on the Republicans. I'll be damned, I never thought it would come to this. LBJ as hero. wow.
Of course, only the initiated here can understand the inner mysteries of it all according to Paul --- he has made Democratism a mystery religion and only he can explain the real truth.
Codswallop. I had three uncles there at one time and one was very high up and helped in the planning, while another was a spook. LBJ knew he was killing and maiming thousands of our soldiers just to be able to say that he did not lose a war.
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I can delete all my letters? RENTY
To say, "That real renty," a person is saying to a male or female this,"....she's handsome, well-shaped: spoke of horses, cows, &c.
To say I'm cranky, I mean...I got a letter to APPEAR. Gads.
FAILURE to report as directed, will result in a violation notice being sent to the trial judge.
NO EXCUSES will be accepted.
Mentor/Monitor P&P.
Yikes. I got a head ache. A corn fall on me? Worst.
NOT RENTRY. bomb. thump. And a woodpecker is an outsider pecking a dead stump. Rat, tap, tip, tap, and toss a straw hat into the sky because I hear a black shiny cricket...Chirp.
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Language use
Karen M: Ironically, I think of myself as less of a prescriptivist, and more of a descriptivist, when it comes to language. For example, I wouldn't change a thing about bebop-o's posted comments. However, just as we all (would like to) expect a certain level of standards from journalists... some of us have similar expectations about the use of language.
But it is important to remember that language can not only be used to communicate ideas and intentions, but also to obscure them. And it is the latter use that those who do not want their intentions to be clear call up with greatest facility. Alexander Haig was a master at this. And speaking of Secretaries of State, I am much more concerned about Rice referring to the "Soviets" when speaking about the Russian objections to our missile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic than about her using "task" as a verb.
But as someone who makes at least part of my living from nit-picking grammar, I am not about to cast aspersions. Besides, individuals who perforce are constrained to domicile in vitreous structures of patent frangibility should on no account employ petrous formations as projectiles.
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@ Frankly
:-) After Arne, cheers. After bebop-o, chirps. There's nothing better for the soul than a bit of a larf.
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Clarification
William Timberman:
Wasn't the Scoop and LBJ comment from svensker? Either way, one of us attributed it to the wrong person. Apologies if I'm the one who got it wrong.
Yes, it was. And bucky1 jumped on it, riding it even farther away from any semblance of realism.
He does it again with his attempted response:
@Paul Rosenberg (claims Vietnam was the Republicans fault)
Of course, I claimed nothing of the sort. I said that LBJ didn't want the war. In a similar vein, most of the Dems who voted for the AUMF didn't want war with Iraq, either--both were actions taken out of fear of being demonized as "soft" on the enemy du jure. But what folks want doesn't excuse them from the consequences of their actions. I've made this point repeatedly here and elsewhere.
Yet, what folks want is important. In law, it's called intent, and it's the difference between murder one and man two, which is a whole lot of prison time.
All of that goes right past bucky1, like a major league fastball in a pickup game.
I agree that LBJ was a tragic character, but his own ambition, and his drive to fix everything was as much a part of his downfall as what was on his right flank. To be fair, I ought not to complain at this point about his vices, which as you've pointed out, were also the virtues which were of such lasting benefit to the country which he genuinely loved.
Yeah, a poor boy who growed up to be President, and wanted to fix all the problems he saw growing up.
What a terrible thing!
He should have just wanted to get his picture took, and make a pile of money!
As for long sentences, try those on the first page of Der Tod in Venedig.
I thought I'd try Scooter Libby, actually!
But I'm bound to be disappointed.