Comments on: The Corner http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:39:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: T.V. http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29271 T.V. Sun, 23 May 2004 17:55:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29271 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr. Frederick Turner. http://www.n2hos.com/acm/turnerto5000.html Why do they hate America? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr. Frederick Turner. http://www.n2hos.com/acm/turnerto5000.html Why do they hate America?

]]> By: pepi http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29270 pepi Sat, 22 May 2004 23:06:05 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29270 Yeah, there's thousands of words on Chalabi in the NRO, and they're all in such adoring tones it's embarassing. They even get to blame the US forces and Bremer for daring to break into his house. As if Chalabi wasn't a respectable reliable guy, how dare they suspect him... Unbelievable. <blockquote>By sending forces to break into Chalabi's house and then by holding a Governing Council member at gunpoint, Bremer sought to humiliate Chalabi. Bremer has not learned from the Abu Ghraib scandal. Humiliation backfires.</blockquote> ... Yeah, there’s thousands of words on Chalabi in the NRO, and they’re all in such adoring tones it’s embarassing. They even get to blame the US forces and Bremer for daring to break into his house. As if Chalabi wasn’t a respectable reliable guy, how dare they suspect him… Unbelievable.
By sending forces to break into Chalabi’s house and then by holding a Governing Council member at gunpoint, Bremer sought to humiliate Chalabi. Bremer has not learned from the Abu Ghraib scandal. Humiliation backfires.
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]]> By: jdw http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29269 jdw Sat, 22 May 2004 22:03:30 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29269 _We have all the best poetry, art, novels, music, architecture and food. “We” are the ones who are non-partisan about all this stuff, and just enjoy the best of what’s out there._ Yeah, but we get laid more. We have all the best poetry, art, novels, music, architecture and food. “We” are the ones who are non-partisan about all this stuff, and just enjoy the best of what’s out there. Yeah, but we get laid more.

]]> By: Nat Whilk http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29268 Nat Whilk Sat, 22 May 2004 21:25:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29268 Belle Waring wrote: "<i>In further NRO news a pleasantly deafening silence on the subject of one Ahmad Chalabi</i>" Your link is to NRO's Corner, where I get 46 hits on the word "Chalabi". Talk about silence! Of course, there's not a lot of substance to those hits, but there hasn't been a lot of information about the raid that would permit substantive commentary. If it's, nevertheless, commentary you demand, check out the front page of NRO, where there are 3 1000+ word articles on Chalabi. Belle Waring wrote: “In further NRO news a pleasantly deafening silence on the subject of one Ahmad Chalabi” Your link is to NRO’s Corner, where I get 46 hits on the word “Chalabi”. Talk about silence! Of course, there’s not a lot of substance to those hits, but there hasn’t been a lot of information about the raid that would permit substantive commentary. If it’s, nevertheless, commentary you demand, check out the front page of NRO, where there are 3 1000+ word articles on Chalabi.

]]> By: Anatoly http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29267 Anatoly Sat, 22 May 2004 20:00:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29267 Ugh, no, Lance, you guys have the Ted Ralls and the Michael Moores of the world. You have shitty poetry, shitty music, shitty cartoons, and shitty art. More pretentious than the shit on the other side, of course, but just as stinky. *We* have all the best poetry, art, novels, music, architecture and food. "We" are the ones who are non-partisan about all this stuff, and just enjoy the best of what's out there. Ugh, no, Lance, you guys have the Ted Ralls and the Michael Moores of the world. You have shitty poetry, shitty music, shitty cartoons, and shitty art. More pretentious than the shit on the other side, of course, but just as stinky. We have all the best poetry, art, novels, music, architecture and food. “We” are the ones who are non-partisan about all this stuff, and just enjoy the best of what’s out there.

]]> By: John Kozak http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29266 John Kozak Sat, 22 May 2004 07:25:58 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29266 I'm sure the Rice poem calls for a closer reading. What's going on with the repeated allusion to <a>a classic of socialist realism</a>, for a start? I’m sure the Rice poem calls for a closer reading. What’s going on with the repeated allusion to a classic of socialist realism, for a start?

]]> By: Lance Boyle http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29265 Lance Boyle Sat, 22 May 2004 00:55:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29265 Aliens. With enough language skills to communicate and blend in in a crowd whose publicly displayed intellectual age-quotient is now down to around 10. We have better poetry, better music, better plays, better novels, better art, better cartoons, better food and more interesting friends, and our kids play harder and have more fun than theirs. Their best commercial messages use our music and our design sensibilities. So why are we even dealing with these creatures? Because they have powers. Alien powers. Aliens. With enough language skills to communicate and blend in in a crowd whose publicly displayed intellectual age-quotient is now down to around 10. We have better poetry, better music, better plays, better novels, better art, better cartoons, better food and more interesting friends, and our kids play harder and have more fun than theirs. Their best commercial messages use our music and our design sensibilities. So why are we even dealing with these creatures? Because they have powers. Alien powers.

]]> By: Matt Weiner http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29264 Matt Weiner Fri, 21 May 2004 22:27:03 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29264 <i>“tempering steel” involves making it harder and less brittle, or more flexible.</i> Yeah, that hasn't happened. “tempering steel” involves making it harder and less brittle, or more flexible. Yeah, that hasn’t happened.

]]> By: bob mcmanus http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29263 bob mcmanus Fri, 21 May 2004 21:38:48 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29263 "Do you temper steel by banging on it while holding it over an anvil?" With no further research than what I have seen on the History Channel, "tempering steel" involves making it harder and less brittle, or more flexible. You temper steel by mixing carbon into it on the anvil, or by quick-cooling it in a liquid, usually water, or for the sake of his poem, blood. “Do you temper steel by banging on it while holding it over an anvil?” With no further research than what I have seen on the History Channel, “tempering steel” involves making it harder and less brittle, or more flexible. You temper steel by mixing carbon into it on the anvil, or by quick-cooling it in a liquid, usually water, or for the sake of his poem, blood.

]]> By: megapotamus http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29262 megapotamus Fri, 21 May 2004 20:58:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29262 I was a Spenser scholar, HAH. Oh well, hasn't hurt me. All that mentioned above would have to improve quite a bit to be dogerrel. A rhyme is a terrible thing to waste. I was a Spenser scholar, HAH. Oh well, hasn’t hurt me. All that mentioned above would have to improve quite a bit to be dogerrel. A rhyme is a terrible thing to waste.

]]> By: Matt Weiner http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29261 Matt Weiner Fri, 21 May 2004 19:56:22 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29261 I've heared that "temper" can mean either harden or soften. Do you temper steel by banging on it while holding it over an anvil? However... They say though I'm a rhyming man from time to time my verse don't scan. But even worse from time to time they say my verse don't even rhyme. I’ve heared that “temper” can mean either harden or soften. Do you temper steel by banging on it while holding it over an anvil? However… They say though I’m a rhyming man from time to time my verse don’t scan. But even worse from time to time they say my verse don’t even rhyme.

]]> By: DJW http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29260 DJW Fri, 21 May 2004 17:56:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29260 Great, Vogons have infiltrated the GOP. My small intestine was starting to stir as I was reading that, it should come with a clearer warning. Great, Vogons have infiltrated the GOP. My small intestine was starting to stir as I was reading that, it should come with a clearer warning.

]]> By: jdw http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29259 jdw Fri, 21 May 2004 16:36:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29259 Saddam Hussein wrote worse. Saddam Hussein wrote worse.

]]> By: bob mcmanus http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29258 bob mcmanus Fri, 21 May 2004 16:35:26 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29258 "They’ll die on our steel that they’ve tempered, with blows." What does this mean? Does he understand what tempering is? "They’ll die on steel they’ve tempered With flows Of blood." Nah, can't be repaired. May try later. I have always wanted to use "ichor" somewhere. I don't understand people. If you have read enough to have a clue what poetry is, how do you put your name in public on such as this? Course, don't understand reality TV, or Jerry Springer, or overconfidant commenters. “They’ll die on our steel that they’ve tempered, with blows.” What does this mean? Does he understand what tempering is? “They’ll die on steel they’ve tempered With flows Of blood.” Nah, can’t be repaired. May try later. I have always wanted to use “ichor” somewhere. I don’t understand people. If you have read enough to have a clue what poetry is, how do you put your name in public on such as this? Course, don’t understand reality TV, or Jerry Springer, or overconfidant commenters.

]]> By: liberal japonicus http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/21/the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-29257 liberal japonicus Fri, 21 May 2004 12:07:02 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1593#comment-29257 <i>The author, one Rob S. Rice, is a classicist, and on behalf of classicists everywhere I’d like to offer a remorseful apology. Sorry about the whole Victor Davis Hanson thing, too. In fact, I’m going to step up to the plate and take full responsibility for both men (N.B. no actual consequences follow from this.)</i> Hey, it don't mean a thing unless you can do it in front of all those Senators like good ole' Rummy did. That was courage (or was it chutzpah?) The author, one Rob S. Rice, is a classicist, and on behalf of classicists everywhere I’d like to offer a remorseful apology. Sorry about the whole Victor Davis Hanson thing, too. In fact, I’m going to step up to the plate and take full responsibility for both men (N.B. no actual consequences follow from this.) Hey, it don’t mean a thing unless you can do it in front of all those Senators like good ole’ Rummy did. That was courage (or was it chutzpah?)

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