Letters to the Editor
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Psilocybin
Shroom hunters are waaaaay more aggressive than women at a lingerie sale.
-- Pedinska
Seems to me that these Morel hunters could improve their disposition somewhat by veering off course once in awhile in search of Psilocybin mushrooms, and then partaking in what they find.
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Ad - When parody and reality become one is it still funny?
I will concur that the ad copy is WAY too long. The best political hit ads use a very small amount of words to force the victim to use a very large amount of words to explain their position. You want to communicate as much of your message as possible using symbolism. Make it 15 seconds long and pound the hell out of it.
[Father at the kitchen table with his son. Positioning suggest a teacher/student moment. Generations are seen in background photos. We see that the father is talking to his son. We cannot yet hear the conversation.]
[Voiceover]
Doing the right might not always be easy, but it isn't complicated.[Father]
Lying, cheating and stealing are wrong son. My father taught me these values and I am going to pass them on to you.[Unflattering picture of the $VICTIM]
[Voiceover]
The big phone companies got caught cheating Americans and $VICTIM wants to take money from the taxpayers so the phone companies won't have to pay the bill for spying on Americans.[Fade to black background with the same slogan knocked out in white with a font that suggests continuity and some nice tight kerning.]
[Voiceover]By teaching our politicians the values we teach our children, we will always teach American values.
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@Baldie
There is an extremely high degree of police and military fetishism in our society today, and a very disturbing and undeniable trend towards the military model in policing as opposed to the professional model. I was studying CJ in the late 80's when it began and have seen it happen, watched it happen, it is still happening. It needs to be addressed, arrested and reversed but how you do that is the problem and it is easier said then done. The drug war needs to be arrested, modified and stopped. On the other hand I don't see the "partisan entrenchment," a term I'll borrow from Horton, as particularly realistic or helpful. Partisan entrenchment in this case is seeing only the two opposing polar extremes as options for the solutions to the problems.
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Perspective...indeed
I suppose you might call both southerners and native Americans enemies foreign and domestic, although which of the two they were depended on one's perspective at the time, I suppose.
-- William Timberman
I had a short discussion with an Indian the other day. He was wearing a sweatshirt with the following emblazoned it:
Homeland Security
Fighting Terrorism Since 1492
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-- GlennGreenwald
"For those in the "Obama-is-no-different" group, here is an interview with Justin Raimondo ..." (GG)
I was trying to contend that even if there was no difference that it would still have to be Obama for other reasons, not that there was no difference.
I have been a supported and helper at antiwar.com since the Bosnian war; and I posted a link here when Jason first wrote a post sometime ago saying that Obama was now the only anti-war candidate left in the race. (Ron Paul is not really still in the race)
Thanks for posting the radio link.
-b1
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Hippie!
And Baldie, I would say that the use of Douglas M. on the bonus marchers was a far more typical use of the military here at home than was defending the black students at Little Rock High. I don't disagree with L.W.M.'s basic premise any more than RMP does, but I think his defense of it is -- shall we say -- overly ardent.
Peacenik!
My point is that it is false to suggest that they have never been used in that role since 1812, and yes, in most case they have been employed to "restore order". "Whose order?", we are inclined to ask. I completely agree. We see it happening now. You and I break a law and off to jail we go. AT&T and the other Telcos? An engraved invitiation from the president to breal the law and a pending engraved "Get out of Jail Free" card. That is the purpose of politics in a liberal democracy. To get the power, through politics, so the people without the guns can tell the people with the guns what to do and what laws to enforce and who to arrest.
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I've seen the teeshirt, Kitt
It's very popular in northern AZ. ;-) I also liked the picture in the front. I don't know where it's from, but the folks in it look very much like Apaches to me.
Another popular teeshirt theme around here: We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us. In the home of platoons of cracker-on-horseback Minutemen, this one is also nice to see.
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W.T. @ 6:36 and Kitt @ 6:37. I was wondering.
If either of you two were loving and caring parents to Mr. Spitzer,
or a parent to Mr. Muckasey, and each morning you made a nice sandwich,
and packed it into a metal lunchbox with some sweet desert snacks.... o, ah,
I was wondering if either of you think tearful teardrops may drip into a lunchbox?
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-- Pedinska
"Not sure how tussling over a brassiere is the same as "using force to enforce rights." But I'm still drinking my first cup of coffee, so maybe I'll come around. ;->"
Well, speaking as one who has tussled over my share of brassieres but also as one who has never needed to use force to acquire one, I can't quite fathom the connection between "rights" and bras.
Anyway, it's too damned cold up here to go without a brassiere. That's what ruins sweaters. I'll get warm again tomorrow.
Zipadeedoodah!!
Mona's correct.
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Mona re: disagreements
I often learn more from the disagreements here than the amen choirs. It is the varied perspectives, and constructive arguments that bring about greater understanding, as long as they are engaged in honestly.
Asher isn't even out of college yet. He's still learning how to pay attention. Hell, I'm 48 and I'm still learning how to pay attention carefully. ;-}