Comments on: Mars Attacks? http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:52:26 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Belle Waring http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159619 Belle Waring Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:05:02 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159619 c'mon, you guys, Reagan was totally right! if aliens invaded earth we'd be teaming up with the soviets before you could say "hasta la vista, alien motherf%$#&^s!!! and jacob, thanks for trying to keep my husband on the straight and narrow. sometimes it's hard for me to keep the wigginess from spilling out into the public arena ;P c’mon, you guys, Reagan was totally right! if aliens invaded earth we’d be teaming up with the soviets before you could say “hasta la vista, alien motherf%$#&^s and jacob, thanks for trying to keep my husband on the straight and narrow. sometimes it’s hard for me to keep the wigginess from spilling out into the public arena ;P

]]> By: Jacob T. Levy http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159542 Jacob T. Levy Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:15:36 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159542 Don't writeon Schmitt. Somehow you've avoided having the Zizekian abyss gaze back into you, but I don't know anyone who works on Schmitt who avoids the equivalent! Don’t writeon Schmitt. Somehow you’ve avoided having the Zizekian abyss gaze back into you, but I don’t know anyone who works on Schmitt who avoids the equivalent!

]]> By: Adam Kotsko http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159520 Adam Kotsko Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:05:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159520 Humanity has no enemies, <a href="http://www.long-sunday.net/long_sunday/2006/06/at_least_not_on.html" rel="nofollow">at least not on this planet</a>. Humanity has no enemies, at least not on this planet.

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159505 abb1 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:00:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159505 Long live Posadas! Long live Posadas!

]]> By: Alan Peakall http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159503 Alan Peakall Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:51:50 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159503 Abb1 @ 10, While you are at Wikipedia, note that J. Posadas thought along the same lines! Abb1 @ 10,

While you are at Wikipedia, note that J. Posadas thought along the same lines!

]]> By: Linda http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159492 Linda Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:12:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159492 It's really a nice felling when I come to know Reagan's ultimate faith in mankind. It’s really a nice felling when I come to know Reagan’s ultimate faith in mankind.

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159489 abb1 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:02:23 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159489 Interesting fella this Carl Schmitt guy, if you believe the wikipedia. Interesting fella this Carl Schmitt guy, if you believe the wikipedia.

]]> By: Scott Martens http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159479 Scott Martens Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:44:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159479 Reagan never did seem to be able to draw the line between old movies and his memories of things he'd actually seen and done. I suppose that was part of his appeal: rather than being a real person, with actual beliefs and ideas, he was merely a compendium of images from the national collective psyche that could be evoked in response to appropriate stimulus. Real people's brains undergo a reality check before invoking some implausible myth construct, but Reagan just went with the flow. Aliens, vulgar Whorfism, clippings from <i>Reader's Digest</i> - it didn't matter what it was, as long as the scene called for it. Reagan never did seem to be able to draw the line between old movies and his memories of things he’d actually seen and done. I suppose that was part of his appeal: rather than being a real person, with actual beliefs and ideas, he was merely a compendium of images from the national collective psyche that could be evoked in response to appropriate stimulus. Real people’s brains undergo a reality check before invoking some implausible myth construct, but Reagan just went with the flow. Aliens, vulgar Whorfism, clippings from Reader’s Digest – it didn’t matter what it was, as long as the scene called for it.

]]> By: Christmas http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159478 Christmas Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:38:35 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159478 11, 14: Reagan and Ozymandias both swiped that one from Klaatu. 11, 14: Reagan and Ozymandias both swiped that one from Klaatu.

]]> By: The Lone Rager http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159474 The Lone Rager Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:13:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159474 (Working on the assumption that this is true...) For all that Reagan's faith in astrology and militaristic religion have been mocked, it's heartening to learn of his ultimate faith in mankind - that, in the spirit of our shared humanity, black and white can come together and gang up on green. Assuming that ET isn't a commie, of course. (Working on the assumption that this is true…)

For all that Reagan’s faith in astrology and militaristic religion have been mocked, it’s heartening to learn of his ultimate faith in mankind – that, in the spirit of our shared humanity, black and white can come together and gang up on green.

Assuming that ET isn’t a commie, of course.

]]> By: goatchowder http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159473 goatchowder Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:10:30 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159473 <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Roxy_And_Elsewhere/07.html" rel="nofollow">Cheepnis!</a> Cheepnis!

]]> By: Glenn Bridgman http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159472 Glenn Bridgman Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:09:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159472 Damnit, Joe O got there first. Reagan as Ozymandias? Damnit, Joe O got there first. Reagan as Ozymandias?

]]> By: Meteor Blades http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159466 Meteor Blades Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:36:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159466 Reagan's staff didn't work hard enough to keep the wigginess out of the public arena. The man's real venture into the extraterrestrial was the Strategic Defense Initiative, which has since sucked tens of billions of tax dollars into a pipe dream. Reagan’s staff didn’t work hard enough to keep the wigginess out of the public arena. The man’s real venture into the extraterrestrial was the Strategic Defense Initiative, which has since sucked tens of billions of tax dollars into a pipe dream.

]]> By: joe o http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159464 joe o Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:10:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159464 That was part of the plot of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen" rel="nofollow"> Watchmen</a> which came out soon after Reagan's speech. That was part of the plot of the Watchmen which came out soon after Reagan’s speech.

]]> By: bad Jim http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-159457 bad Jim Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:49:12 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/06/15/mars-attacks/#comment-159457 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto" rel="nofollow">Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!</a> Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

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