Do you really think that if this were a symbol for a man’s most sensitive organ, we would cut one end and set the other end on fire?
– Ray, a character from Blowing Smoke movie, talking about cigars…
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November 27th, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 ‘Consultancy’ is the middle class word for unemployment. November 22nd, 2004 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
November 12th, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Style is usually all that matters, when you have no control over the substance. November 9th, 2004 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
What makes dictators dictators is not that they don’t believe in the power of the majority but that they don’t believe in the rights of the individual. November 5th, 2004 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
Blogs are the c[e]rebrum of the Net. October 30th, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
If Moses had turned right instead of left, the Jews could have had the oil, and the Arabs would have got the oranges. October 24th, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this. – from So Long, and Thanks for all the Fsh by Douglas Adams. (We miss you Douglas) October 22nd, 2004 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
If this bothers you, please sod off and go read Atrios or Kos October 21st, 2004 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Because she’d never heard of me, she made the quite reasonable assumption that I was a Dante writer – one so new or obscure that she’d never seen me mentioned in a journal of literary criticism, and never bumped into me at a conference. Therefore, I couldn’t be making any money at it. Therefore, I was most likely teaching somewhere. All perfectly logical. In order to set her straight, I had to let her know that the reason she’d never heard of me was because I was famous. – Neal Stephenson, describing an encounter with a “literary” writer in a quite wonderful interview over at slashdot. His answer to the question “In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?” is so magnificent that it would make me go and buy all his books if I didn’t own them already. October 20th, 2004 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
So, I have been, personally very attentive to the debates and positions of both candidates, and I have some thoughts which I would like to share with you, my American friends. To start with, Senator Kerry may be a very good man and quite patriotic. Also we have to respect the almost 50% of the American people who lean towards the democrats. I don’t know much about domestic issues in the States so naturally, as might be expected, the position of any Iraqi would be mainly influenced by the issue that most concerns him. Thus, regardless of all the arguments of both candidates the main problem is that President Bush now represents a symbol of defiance against the terrorists and it is a fact, that all the enemies of America, with the terrorists foremost, are hoping for him to be deposed in the upcoming elections. That is not to say that they like the democrats, but that they will take such an outcome as retreat by the American people, and will consequently be greatly encouraged to intensify their assault. The outcome here on the ground in Iraq seems to be almost obvious. In case President Bush loses the election there would be a massive upsurge of violence, in the belief, rightly or wrongly, by the enemy, that the new leadership is more likely to “cut and run” to use the phrase frequently used by some of my readers. And they would try to inflict as heavy casualties as possible on the American forces to bring about a retreat and withdrawal. It is crucial for them to remove this insurmountable obstacle which stands in their way. They fully realize that with continued American and allies’ commitment, they have no hope of achieving anything. On the other hand if President Bush is reelected, this will prove to them that the American people are not intimidated despite all their brutality, and that their cause is quite futile. Yes there is little doubt that an election victory by President Bush would be a severe blow and a great disappointment for all the terrorists in the World and all the enemies of America. October 20th, 2004 | 30 comments - (Comments are closed)
The idea that you can increase taxes and stimulate the economy is pretty damn stupid. Thanks to Instapundit. October 19th, 2004 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
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