Posts by Joe Wylie
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Although, if the show raises organ donation rates, then great. Tackiness be damned.
Mrs. Smith, you called it right.
We've been brilliantly suckered. -
James said:
. . . look how well Chile has done on the path Pinochet put it on . . .
And hasn't America gone ahead since Bin Laden jolted it out of its pre-9/ll complacency.
Once you've subscribed to the acceptable-collateral can't-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-eggs line, no analogy is too sick. -
All I'm asking is that we don't 'move on' from the suffering those two defended and encouraged.
Good on you. I ever-so-humbly submit that you make your point very effectively when it isn't couched in a tone of towering moral superiority.
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Adams and Paisley should spend the rest of their lives on their knees, thanking God they're not being held in a cell awaiting their trials for crimes against humanity.
Decadent and depraved, eh? Must be Brian Tamaki talk-like-a-pantomime-dame week.
Rather than having Gerry & Ian spend their remaining years in permanent grovel-mode, I'd suggest that their current non-religious style of atonement is infinitely more productive. -
Angus -
This is getting tiresome, so a couple of final points:I have NOT posted a single word here in defense of Chavez. In fact I haven't even implied it.
I find it childish and silly to attempt to reduce politics to good guys/bad guys.
That's all.
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No Joe it was once complex, but now it is not. A complex situation can be solved peacefully through debate & democracy in an open forum.
Thanks for putting me straight on that, Angus. It's a concept I'd never been exposed to before. Breathtaking (And if youbelieve that, you'll believe anything).
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The sooner you accept that its function is emotional and its information content a happy accident, the more at peace you will be.
Delete the word happy and I'll buy that.
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it is a very easy call as to who are the good guys . . .
Best you don't ruin a good bedtime story by following up on the BoingBoing link provided in Russell's piece.
Hint - informative, messy & complex. -
I recall a McGillicudy Serious type being hauled before a court in Hamilton many years ago, charged with failing to complete his census form. His excuse was that he'd been possessed by the spirit of an ancient pithecanthropus at the critical moment.
The judge got him to admit that he'd deliberately invoked the pithecanthropus possession, and discharged him without conviction.Hopefully Mr. Haden will encounter a similarly emlightened judge.
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Do you really want young children in the 21st Century spending their time typing documents and working on spreadsheets ... or pursuing PowerPointlessness . . .
Hell no - but I have a funny feeling that Steve Ballmer does.