Comments on: Green Lantern Watch, Part XXIV

By: appletree » Blog Archive » Thursday Links: Spam Edition

appletree » Blog Archive » Thursday Links: Spam Edition — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:11:23 +0000

[...] And Bush isn’t the only one displaying symptoms of psychological entrapment. John Holbo of Crooked Timber spots an article by Bob Novak that offers a good example of the sort of thinking that’s perpetrating our involvement in that war: Today, the purpose of war is sharply political, not military; psychological, not physical. The main purpose of war is to dominate the way the enemy imagines and thinks about the war. [...]

By: DonBoy

DonBoy — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:19:39 +0000

Robot Chicken is hilarious. But you have to have a bit of ADD and an already plenty addled mind to think that.

Is this punditspeak for “watch it stoned”?

By: Darren7160

Darren7160 — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:23:50 +0000

Someone really needed to sit Rumsfeld and his AEI/PNAC cronies down before the war and explained all this to them… Wait, they did! Those damn liberals in the State Dept. and those “no nothing” Iraqis who were part of the Chalabi clique.

Everyone tried to explain to them that defeating the Iraiq military on the battlefield wasn’t the issue… that was a no brainer. The extra troops were needed to provide security and safety to the Iraqi people after the war. A chance to enforce the rule of LAW and TALK.

Instead, Rumsfled and his buddies believed, really believed that wars were ultimately won by defeating the enemy on the battlefield… and we would be welcomed with open arms… because EVERYONE treasues the values of AEI and PNAC more than nationalism, religous differences or the opportunity to gain power throught the use of force.

By: Pie and Coffee » Items

Pie and Coffee » Items — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:17:14 +0000

[...] John Holbo: “War is a continuation of punditry by other means? Have I got that right?” [...]

By: feckless

feckless — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:06:28 +0000

Only in a world where a soviet “expert” like Condi Rice (who was completely wrong pre 1989 about Russia’s future) becomes secretary of state, could a fucktard like Novak claim that the soviet union fell because of “lack of will”. What an uninformed maroon.

I am willing to guess that Mr. “inside mind of the islamofascist” Novak has no academic or professional credentials in the ME, speaks neither Arabic, Pashtu or Farsi. But like others who were wrong, he is still a fuckin pundit.

DRAFT ALL THESE BASTARDS.

By: flint

flint — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:39:15 +0000

Enclaves of our protectees grow, attached to our Fortresses. . .

Over the next 100 years, we win. Triumph of the Will.

Or, Triumph of the Undead. This sounds like an early draft of Max Brooks’s World War Z more than anything else.

Max Brooks or Mel Brooks?

This discussion of Fortresses suddenly reminds me of ZARDOZ!

Warning! You are approaching the Periphery Sheild
of the Green Zone!

By: ron

ron — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:01:16 +0000

robot chicken is a highly compressed form of SNL. Instead of 5 minutes of painful unfunniness, the skits only last 10-30 seconds. and like SNL, there are the rare occasions of genuinely clever and funny moments but you’ll have to sit through lots of crap to get to them.

follow the advice above and watch the good stuff on youtube.

The weakly standard is far better comedy writing than either robot chicken or SNL. for their best stuff I recommend reading issues from a year or more ago. fricken heelarious.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:27:35 +0000

I trust you didn’t miss my Guy Gardner Week photoshop efforts, nbarnes? It was just last week or so. You can check the archives.

By: NBarnes

NBarnes — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:07:07 +0000

“Green Lantern Foreign Policy” sounds like a Robot Chicken sketch. A good one. Hal and Guy running as opposing candidates for high office, maybe Sinestro as a third party candidate….

By: baikonur

baikonur — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:33:36 +0000

Michael Novak? He of “The Experience of Nothingness” fame (about 1971, I believe)? Whatever happened to fear and trembling and spiritual anguish? Guess it’s tiresome to stand around acting weak and helpless—more fun pretending to be a Wallenstein tromping down your religious enemies.

By: bo

bo — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:36:42 +0000

Miller time? With Novak, it’s Zell Miller time, all the time. What this country needs is more extra large butterflynets so the rational folk can capture the whackius novakii and put them in a nice safe place where they are no longer a danger to the rest of us.

By: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:11:33 +0000

Today, the purpose of war is sharply political, not military; psychological, not physical. The main purpose of war is to dominate the way the enemy imagines and thinks about the war.

Well, by that standard, Al Qaeda has won decisively over America. Well done, Osama.

By: DrBB

DrBB — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:32:52 +0000

Ah! Looney Toons Golden Collection VOl. 1-3. Thanks for the tip. Just ordered it!! Let the neo-con bashing resume!

Does it include the non-bowdlerized version of “I’m the roughest-toughest, he-man stuffest hombre as ever crossed the Rio Grandi. An I don’t mean Mahatma Ghandi”? Because “An I ain’t no namby-pamby” is an insult to all thinking persons.

And yes, I do think the abuse to which golden-age Warner Bros. cartoons have been put over the last 20 years is a much more significant topic than the scribblings of former lefty Novak. Let’s talk about that instead for a while.

Thanks for Robot Chicken, too. The Star Wars one had me straining my hernia.

By: r€nato

r€nato — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:41:32 +0000

Robot Chicken IS funny… and in those rare cases it’s not, the skits usually last 30 seconds or less… so there’ll be something funny soon!

By: kei to yuri

kei to yuri — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:10:51 +0000

This is perhaps the most perfect textbook example of a pencil-necked deskbound warmongerer who does not know what he is talking about cheering on mass murder with inarguable pedantry ever to be found in the non-truck tubes.