tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post5421195520000577182..comments2024-03-26T15:19:23.091-07:00Comments on false dichotomy by charles davis: Casualties of America's less casual violenceCharles Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-21629082414267812622011-09-22T07:28:04.114-07:002011-09-22T07:28:04.114-07:00No blowback here. Move along.No blowback here. Move along.mrpomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-7117529180375714532011-09-09T12:14:23.386-07:002011-09-09T12:14:23.386-07:00It's worse that the photo isn't new. It...It's worse that the photo isn't new. It's like we've accepted to live with this for that long.zilchonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-24928690491035136622011-09-09T12:13:26.207-07:002011-09-09T12:13:26.207-07:00Now I'm up to speed with the rest of the world...Now I'm up to speed with the rest of the world. <br /><br />If I don't watch out, you're going to get me throwing up all over the place.<br /><br />I already "disapproved"...now I'm just existentially screwed.zilchonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-9996922089857756152011-09-09T07:15:16.226-07:002011-09-09T07:15:16.226-07:00Zilcho,
The photo was definitely not staged. Here...Zilcho,<br /><br />The photo was definitely not staged. Here's a recent story about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/world/middleeast/07photo.htmlCharles Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-14088665331885325922011-09-09T01:28:22.795-07:002011-09-09T01:28:22.795-07:00Also, just to mention in this discussion on needle...Also, just to mention in this discussion on needless governmental destruction of lives,<br />has anyone seen spike lee's The 25th hour?<br /><br />Like an attempt to reach white people by making the victim of punitive drug laws a white whitey. The ending is very beautiful, a fantasy about skipping your reporting to jail and just becoming a fugitive, since he has nothing to lose, being guaranteed far too weak a white boy to survive prison, particularly the new york prison he's destined to. And yet, being a good white boy at heart, he needlessly submits to prison, to nobody's benefit, least of all his own. An almost frightening call to civil disobedience from Mr. Lee: if you can get away from needless punishment that the system doles out, you'd just be stupid to go along with it. Escape if you can.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6SyZmu4hs<br /><br />It's so easy not to submit when its just a cog, yet he chooses to submit, and destroys his life, blissfully.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-90588166689602161542011-09-09T01:16:00.498-07:002011-09-09T01:16:00.498-07:00I'm not sure how I feel about the humorous cap...I'm not sure how I feel about the humorous caption beneath the weirdly horrific yet uncertain (ketchup? staged? in this day and age I'll believe anything) image.<br /><br />Certainly made me laugh. And then made it bearable. Now I think I can live with laughing at terrified and murdered children, in reality.zilchonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-57024252481109661062011-09-08T15:57:30.967-07:002011-09-08T15:57:30.967-07:00This is the best summary I've seen. Thanks so ...This is the best summary I've seen. Thanks so much. I've been wondering what the estimates have been for some time now.Paul Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719331788512042402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-46582107003677210562011-09-07T20:35:51.967-07:002011-09-07T20:35:51.967-07:00Hi Mr. Davis,
Great post.
I think the major pr...Hi Mr. Davis, <br /><br />Great post. <br /><br />I think the major problem with people like Yglesias is that they are so attached to the fable of progress i.e. that history is the story of the march of human progress (of course, always in their preferred form, in this case, “liberal cosmopolitan humanism”) that they end up becoming blind to reality. <br /><br />Perhaps from his standpoint as a well-educated and (most likely) rather comfortable writer living in the United States, things are getting better. But can we say the same thing for the common people in Iraq and Afghanistan?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-71235513928283264762011-09-07T17:30:26.242-07:002011-09-07T17:30:26.242-07:00I appreciate the kind remarks, but a clarification...I appreciate the kind remarks, but a clarification: I do get paid, damn it. Though as a freelance writer my salary's closer to the average income in Nicaragua than the average income in America.Charles Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-78359702720264989212011-09-07T17:22:11.779-07:002011-09-07T17:22:11.779-07:00Great work Charlieboy! I saw on the tweeter you al...Great work Charlieboy! I saw on the tweeter you almost didn't blog this, but dammit you should have and you did. Yggie will probably see it and he'll never admit it but there is a part of him -- I won't call it a conscience -- that will feel amiss and will hate you for it. He pays no price for lapping up the viscera of the powerful, but maybe losing his humanity is a small price. We must make them pay what little we can make them.<br /><br />The good are banished to be unpaid gringos in Nicaragua. But we love you because you are good.LorenzoStDuBoisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-76621377954833950832011-09-07T17:12:28.103-07:002011-09-07T17:12:28.103-07:00This really says it all. It takes a special kind o...This really says it all. It takes a special kind of degenerate sociopath to be a progressive--to congratulate yourself on your enlightened cosmopolitan values while you defend institutions of state power and rationalize the violence they perpetrate against the rest of the world's inhabitants.<br /><br />I do have to voice my appreciation for ThinkProgress, though. Reading post after appalling post praising Obama's imperialist war in Libya after the rebels took Tripoli (as well as the sentiments of countless partisan supporters who mindlessly cheered their exalted leader's supposed commitment to "freedom" and "democracy") finally convinced me that all the partisan Democrats have to offer is the future of no future.Troville90http://adamtrovillion.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com