Republican quotes KKK founder on the House floor
Oh dear. Not cool.
Snarking The Odyssey (with AD&D)
WARNING: Those of you who are accustomed to pithy political remarks here on Internal Monologue should brace yourselves for a major dose of gaming geekitude. Here's a link to one "Jamie R." who does a very snarky close reading of Homer's The Odyssey (HT: Mad Latinist via email). I've only read book 1, but it's pretty funny so far. An excerpt: Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men… Sooooo, he’s in charge, and everybody dies. Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero and his colossal failure. What? … for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever rea...
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No single aspect of the liberal character defines it as much as the truncated perspective. (Cathy Davidson)
"There's nothing wrong with modern day Republicans pandering to racist voters, because 150 years ago, southern Democrats were pro-slavery."
- Thus sayeth the Philospher King known as -ben
Or do we get to make one up for you?
Oh, you mean like how you made John "Flip-flop" Kerry sound all so much more intellectual than Bush, but it turned out that Kerry actually had a lower GPA than Bush in college?
Isn't that what you do? Or, do you feign reading miscomprehension when the truth hits you. My point? Why the omission of the Democratic Party's links to slavery?
As for pandering to racist voters, you might want to check out the Democrats' alliance with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Speaking of which... hey, when are they apologizing to the 3 Duke lacrosse players?
The point? The point is hypocrisy. Pure and simple.
I would ask you to run (from the truth) but, at your age, you might drop dead from a cardiac infarction, so just shut down your computer. That way, you can earn enough carbon credits to visit Al "In 1 month I use what an average American household uses in electricity a year" Gore's mansion someday.
Take your soft-bigotry and shove it. I've seen plenty of your kind.
I think Ben's bringing up Dem support for Slavery in the Civil War era is absurd. It goes without saying that the parties have metamorphosed almost beyond recognition since then.
I think the quote -ben uses at the end of his first comment
If Democrats quote racists or use other forms of signalling that bigotry is OK, they should be called on it. I admit I am not as vigilant in my policing of Dems, but I figure the Republicans and folks like -ben have that job well covered.
For example, I think Sharpton's recent comment saying that Romney doesn't really believe in God was absurd. Mormons believe in God, and to imply that they don't is ridiculous. Of course, I'm also annoyed that not believing in God was implicitly assumed to be a bad thing.
I am aware that Kerry's GPA at Yale was lower than Bushes. But that doesn't mean Kerry isn't more intellectual. There's a lot more to grades than whether someone is intellectual or not.
My beef with Bush has never been about lack of raw intelligence. It is that he is profoundly incurious about the world, and seems completely convinced of his own correctness regardless of the evidence. As a result, his actions end up being stupid, even though I don't think he's particularly dumb.
As to the rest of -ben's namecalling, I don't think it's that productive. Although I admit I've engaged in simlar insult hurling, I hope I have directed my venom at more specific policies and outrages rather than just hurling it scattershot at a bunch of unrelated items. Brining up Al Gore's energy consumption, Sharpton's racism, Dem support of slavery in the Civil War era, and Kerry's GPA in one thread just seems silly.
-Ben,
I think the quote -ben uses at the end of his first comment kinda starts the name calling. I think after quoting that, his cry of "attacking the messenger" rings rather hollow. (And I disagree that liberalism is characterized by truncated perspective. I don't think conservatism are characterized by it either.)
-ben, conservatives are welcome here, but please try to stay on topic. If you think it's hypocritical for me to say "not cool" when a Republican quotes a KKK founder on the House floor, you are free to bring to my attention recent statements made by Democrats made on the House floor that you think are equivalently "not cool". But bringing up 19th century stances that are completely irrelevant to today's political landscape is not going to win you many converts here.
The only thing I would like to see here is such photo or even two :)
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