Dear Conservative Movement: Stop Ruining My Life

[Winehole23]

BTW, it's not an undifferentiated nostalgia, and it might not end up being strictly unrelated to the ultimate reining in of our truly massive discretionary defense spending, among other things.

[TeyshaBlue]

Flinging poop at syntax would be a more appropriate poop fling.

All the best Gods had senses of humor.

Ok...gimme your top 5 with the best omniscience:humor ratio! Loki doesn't count.

[rjv]

southern fried has a point. a lot of this forum is populated by posters,like myself, who spend way too much time pointing out the obvious tautologies about the inefficiencies of our government and the growing emergence of one vague political system divided into two not at all dissimilar parties. in that sense we are not really engaging in philosophical discourse at all. it is more of a logic festival.

outside that there is the fact that the real world moves on and there are other ways to address the inadequacies of our our poilitical society. how that is done is the question. even dissidents and self-proclaimed anarchists such as chomsky admit that, to get to where there ideals want this nation to be, they have to first work with the system that is in place.

but southern fried may be correct. perhaps many are more suited to wearing berets and sipping lattes over the political conversation of the day.

(i think i know how camus must have felt when he just got sick of the heavy nihilism of his peers and branched off.)

[TeyshaBlue]

southern fried has a point. a lot of this forum is populated by posters,like myself, who spend way too much time pointing out the obvious tautologies about the inefficiencies of our government and the growing emergence of one vague political system divided into two not at all dissimilar parties. in that sense we are not really engaging in philosophical discourse at all. it is more of a logic festival.

outside that there is the fact that the real world moves on and there are other ways to address the inadequacies of our our poilitical society. how that is done is the question. even dissidents and self-proclaimed anarchists such as chomsky admit that, to get to where there ideals want this nation to be, they have to first work with the system that is in place.

but southern fried may be correct. perhaps many are more suited to wearing berets and sipping lattes over the political conversation of the day.

(i think i know how camus must have felt when he just got sick of the heavy nihilism of his peers and branched off.)

Logic festival. Hmm...I'm a Carny?

[Marcus Bryant]

Never, never, never search for truth on a message board.

[admiralsnackbar]

Good find, MB.

[rjv]

Never, never, never search for truth on a message board.

didn't emerson say this ?

[admiralsnackbar]

didn't emerson say this ?

I think he was paraphrasing the Gorgias.

[Winehole23]

but southern fried may be correct. perhaps many are more suited to wearing berets and sipping lattes over the political conversation of the day.

This whole forum is a goddam coffeehouse conversation, rjv.

[RandomGuy]

http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/dear-c...ndan-dougherty

I pretty much feel the same.

This is the biggest problem the modern GOP faces... anybody of real conscience or anything approaching intellectual honesty knows how truly dishonest and corrupted it is.

That dishonestly and corruption has literally killed the people who owe everythign to, our servicemembers who needless died in Iraq.

[Winehole23]

That dishonestly and corruption has literally killed the people who owe everythign to, our servicemembers who needless died in Iraq.

It's understandable to get choked up sometimes. Or alternately, angry about it.