tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post768374388735323005..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: The Righteous and the WickedPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-42358687782251944822011-12-19T12:32:31.359-08:002011-12-19T12:32:31.359-08:00No one mourns the wicked.
JzBNo one mourns the wicked.<br /><br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-2714741250986680512011-12-19T09:31:08.742-08:002011-12-19T09:31:08.742-08:00It was seeing so many people like Hitchens -- who ...<i>It was seeing so many people like Hitchens -- who should have damn well known better -- cheering it on.</i><br /><br />Absolutely. There was never any excuse for seeing Bush & Co. as competent or honest. Anyone who did, or pretended to, was naive, crazy or corrupt. And it should've ended their careers. (Of course, if we lived in a world where errors like that ended careers, errors like that probably wouldn't happen in the first place.)<br /><br />But yeah, at least Hitchens wasn't fool enough to believe that the targets of his bloodlust had souls. So hats off to him for that.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-19120494599965317722011-12-18T23:55:49.309-08:002011-12-18T23:55:49.309-08:00... tribalist hatred, gadfly posturing and preenin...<i>... tribalist hatred, gadfly posturing and preening first-world privilege ...</i><br /><br />Yep. And furthermore, exactly. But as you said, thank goodness our cruise missiles weren't motivated by primitive superstition.<br /><br />The most shocking thing about the aftermath of 9/11 wasn't the lynch mob mentality -- that was only to be expected. It was seeing so many people like Hitchens -- <i>who should have damn well known better</i> -- cheering it on.<br /><br />It was downright disorienting, watching someone who'd written this scathing indictment of Henry Kissinger and the murderous foreign policy establishment he so epitomized, turn into the second coming of Curtis LeMay.<br /><br />But then, AFAIC, anyone who uses the term "Islamofascist" in a non-parodic sense has forfeited any right to be taken seriously.grouchomarxistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-28314592577172588932011-12-18T17:11:17.804-08:002011-12-18T17:11:17.804-08:00i hope you keep on with the laborious literary phr...i hope you keep on with the laborious literary phrases, they make me laugh in a good way.liliannattelhttp://liliannattel.comnoreply@blogger.com