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December 09, 2002
Keep fingers out of reach of the didofoot. She is cranky today.
I'm researching a paper about the effects of cattle ranching on rainforests in Brazil, and if my research leads me to one more article decrying the knee-jerk liberalism of writers who urged America to temper its grief with awareness of its sins INTHEWAKEOFSEPTETC I will go bananas. Bananas. Bananas.
"Uh, oh, here it comes: that danged moral equivalence again, reminding us that we're not allowed to mourn this one great act of evil without remembering how much we are to blame for it with our past policies."
Fuck you, namless hack from the redundant Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, with your evil rhetoric and your garish flag. Get out of my Google search.
Posted by didofoot at December 9, 2002 10:19 AM
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.
Posted by: ian at December 9, 2002 01:35 PM
wow. AND that whole quote is a palindrome.
just kidding.
Posted by: didofoot at December 9, 2002 01:58 PM
But I just had lunch with you and you were in NO WAY cranky. I am so special that you put your cranky on hold just to hang out with ME! Hugs all around.
Posted by: tracy at December 9, 2002 02:49 PM
oh yeah, emphasis added.
sorry, Bozzie.
Posted by: ian at December 9, 2002 04:26 PM
Sadly, when is patriotism not self-interest? I'd (some might say wrongly) define patriotism as the love of one's own country over the love of the world. Rather than identifying with people, patriots love an idea centered around themselves (MY country vs YOUR country). I don't see anything noble about loving something simply because one belongs to it from birth. If joining one nation out of many was an act of choice upon, say, legal voting age, then I'd view patriotism in a different light.
Posted by: Jacob at December 9, 2002 06:24 PM
right on, jake.
can i call you jake? it sounds more american.
Posted by: peacock at December 10, 2002 04:17 PM
i love when you talk about yourself in the 3rd person.
Posted by: ian at December 13, 2002 04:19 PM
Sorry, that's the scientist talking. Years of mock-manuscripts have taught me that the objective third person is the ONLY way one should write.
Posted by: Jacob at December 13, 2002 05:27 PM
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