What a debate! What will we do without the Hitch? If anybody is interested, I just finished painting a portrait of Hitch on my site. Critiques welcome.
All that these men will be remembered for is their actions and opinions in the war on Iraq.
Posted by: maniza | Nov 30, 2010 9:46:45 PM
Wait so was it Blair or Hitchens who used his acutely superior morality to oppose one of the more disgustingly flagrant land grabs that was the Iraq War? I can never remember...
Posted by: Fill | Dec 1, 2010 1:37:14 AM
3QD seems to be getting spammed by "New Era Hats" and variations on "Air" seem to be taking off... Is there a way to ban their domains?
I enjoy most of Hitch's arguments..but his reasons for supporting the Iraq war seem almost as thin as Slimy Tony's.. Hitch..how could you stoop so low?
Posted by: Bill | Dec 1, 2010 6:15:41 AM
No one should advocate, plan, support or shill for any war unless they are prepared to serve on the front lines.
Posted by: J. Hawkins | Dec 1, 2010 10:41:29 AM
I'm like Bill; I cannot reconcile the writer I was inspired by for years with his stand in favor of the invasion.
He romanticised it. He knew people who resisted Saddam and wanted to see them vindicated. And he had a mid-life crisis. That same year he'd written in his column in Vanity Fair about the glories of our fathers, his father, in WWII, and the depression. And how our generation didn't rule, didn't win, we didn't have an actual WAR. What did our generation have to show when all we did was OPPOSE A WAR. Boo hoo.
To which I say, hooray for our brave war resistors, especially the men, because they pay a price for that. They are heroes, everyone of them, and I know I'm part of a grateful nation that counts on them every single day, to stand up with us and say that war is a crime.|
Posted by: Alice de Tocqueville | Dec 2, 2010 12:19:56 AM
These will make great peacekeeping weapons! Seriously though this species/planet is doomed, the neocortex is simply too late and too small.
Posted by: Fill | Dec 4, 2010 12:20:48 AM
The neocortex is clearly too late, having only originated with our early rat-like mammalian ancestors millions of years ago. If only we had had a billion years or more to let it evolve instead of the paltry hundreds of millions.
The problem is not the gun itself. The problem is the leadership of those who wield it.
Posted by: Michael | Dec 4, 2010 8:24:30 PM
The New Atheists lose their way when they insist on taking the fundamentalist's words seriously. Since the Enlightenment, we have become so smart because we now know those misguided "ancients" told multi-layered and profound metaphoric stories that we "moderns" now take literally.
Posted by: james | Dec 7, 2010 2:59:39 AM
TONY BLAIR VS CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS.
Hitchens may come up with stricken examples of failure example of religion.But that is just what he can see.The scenerio is quite diffirent in Africa where there are no form of Government.Christainity is the only hope that some have.Over hear in Africa,shelter,food peace and many more from faith based organisation.Infact it is only these organisation that has worked.It there is anything Good today in Africa,it is these faith Based Organisation.
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What a debate! What will we do without the Hitch? If anybody is interested, I just finished painting a portrait of Hitch on my site. Critiques welcome.
Posted by: Adrian Covert | Nov 30, 2010 8:06:34 PM
All that these men will be remembered for is their actions and opinions in the war on Iraq.
Posted by: maniza | Nov 30, 2010 9:46:45 PM
Wait so was it Blair or Hitchens who used his acutely superior morality to oppose one of the more disgustingly flagrant land grabs that was the Iraq War? I can never remember...
Posted by: Fill | Dec 1, 2010 1:37:14 AM
3QD seems to be getting spammed by "New Era Hats" and variations on "Air" seem to be taking off... Is there a way to ban their domains?
I enjoy most of Hitch's arguments..but his reasons for supporting the Iraq war seem almost as thin as Slimy Tony's.. Hitch..how could you stoop so low?
Posted by: Bill | Dec 1, 2010 6:15:41 AM
No one should advocate, plan, support or shill for any war unless they are prepared to serve on the front lines.
Posted by: J. Hawkins | Dec 1, 2010 10:41:29 AM
I'm like Bill; I cannot reconcile the writer I was inspired by for years with his stand in favor of the invasion.
He romanticised it. He knew people who resisted Saddam and wanted to see them vindicated. And he had a mid-life crisis. That same year he'd written in his column in Vanity Fair about the glories of our fathers, his father, in WWII, and the depression. And how our generation didn't rule, didn't win, we didn't have an actual WAR. What did our generation have to show when all we did was OPPOSE A WAR. Boo hoo.
To which I say, hooray for our brave war resistors, especially the men, because they pay a price for that. They are heroes, everyone of them, and I know I'm part of a grateful nation that counts on them every single day, to stand up with us and say that war is a crime.|
Posted by: Alice de Tocqueville | Dec 2, 2010 12:19:56 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/24/armys-revolutionary-rifle-use-afghanistan/#ixzz16vWeQyA9
These will make great peacekeeping weapons! Seriously though this species/planet is doomed, the neocortex is simply too late and too small.
Posted by: Fill | Dec 4, 2010 12:20:48 AM
The neocortex is clearly too late, having only originated with our early rat-like mammalian ancestors millions of years ago. If only we had had a billion years or more to let it evolve instead of the paltry hundreds of millions.
The problem is not the gun itself. The problem is the leadership of those who wield it.
Posted by: Michael | Dec 4, 2010 8:24:30 PM
The New Atheists lose their way when they insist on taking the fundamentalist's words seriously. Since the Enlightenment, we have become so smart because we now know those misguided "ancients" told multi-layered and profound metaphoric stories that we "moderns" now take literally.
Posted by: james | Dec 7, 2010 2:59:39 AM
TONY BLAIR VS CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS.
Hitchens may come up with stricken examples of failure example of religion.But that is just what he can see.The scenerio is quite diffirent in Africa where there are no form of Government.Christainity is the only hope that some have.Over hear in Africa,shelter,food peace and many more from faith based organisation.Infact it is only these organisation that has worked.It there is anything Good today in Africa,it is these faith Based Organisation.
Posted by: Danjuma Audu | Jan 2, 2011 10:21:43 PM
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