Comments on: The imperial presidency

By: wood turtle

wood turtle — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:14:37 +0000

I may be the only one here who finds those laughable inspirational sayings, well, inspirational. Thanks very much Teresa Nielsen Hayden for posting them. I try to read them every day.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:56:18 +0000

Telling indeed, but I suspect it tells us more about the people making the jokes, than about Comrade Stalin. -Attributed to Lavrenti Beria, in conversation with Nikolai Yezhov, possibly apocryphal.

By: JBGreen654

JBGreen654 — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:02:54 +0000

If I were a conservative, I’d be voting for someone else. They usually like to think of themselves as the practical, non-Utopian ones. Anybody remember these articles from – now silent – conservative (sorry, “Old Fashioned Liberal”) blogger Den Beste, claiming that he was on the side of the empiricists – not the p-idealists? And that this was why he was not going to vote for Kerry? http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2004/01/TeleologyandSolipsism.shtml http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/22004/05/Inelegance.shtml I remember thinking at the time that he was right about some things and almost exactly backwards about others…

By: nofundy

nofundy — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:46:31 +0000

And who would be Dubya’s urine wiper? Glenn Reynolds perhaps?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:13:05 +0000

A Soviet judge walks out of the courtroom, barely managing to suppress his wild laughter. A colleague asks, “What is it you are laughing about? “Well, I just heard a great joke,” the judge says. “A joke? Tell me!” “Are you crazy? I just sentenced a man to five years for that joke!”

By: Brett Bellmore

Brett Bellmore — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:33:04 +0000

Telling indeed, but I suspect it tells us more about the people making the jokes, than about Bush.

By: g

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:50:07 +0000

This has nothing whatever to do with the actual topic, but it occurs to me that “Kapuscinski” is a rather strange name. I mean, a capuchin is either a monk or a monkey, yes? And “-ski” means “son of”, yes? So …

By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Teresa Nielsen Hayden — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:02:13 +0000

Have a look at a comment thread about current GWB jokes. It’s not strictly necessary to read the posts about digestive biscuits.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:39:26 +0000

Merdre! Jehovah’s Kingdom Comes? That would be Pere Ubuism. What I’d like to know: How Many Iraqi Schools Would Jesus Paint? And Why Are So Many Of His Followers Inhaling The Fumes? Too shrill? Perhaps. I’m afraid that only the cynics can hear me now.