Comments on: Then we take Berlin

By: engels

engels — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:34:44 +0000

W. Kiernan – You’ve just ruined my day. Congratulations, asshole.

By: W. Kiernan

W. Kiernan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:43:12 +0000

Man, I not only clicked through to Sullivan’s piece but clicked through that to a thing he wrote in 1999 entitled, fuck me if I lie, “What’s So Bad About Hate?” My head hurts now, as I read Sullivan deliberately confound the fairly closely defined term-of-art “hate crime” (i.e. a crime to which is added the element of social terrorism) and the wide and vague general meaning of the common English word “hate,” across 7,000 words or so.

Because I hate the whole world I dish up this snip:

Do we not owe something more to the victims of hate? Perhaps we do. But it is also true that there is nothing that government can do for the hated that the hated cannot better do for themselves.

Go read this thing if you want to get pissed off.

By: Belle Waring

Belle Waring — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:54:57 +0000

gr, “miniter” should be “minister.”

By: Belle Waring

Belle Waring — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:49:10 +0000

it’s like in chocolate city: “richard pryor, miniter of fine arts; and miss aretha franklin the first lady.” I love you CT!

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:29:23 +0000

I put my hand to be Deputy Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Lots and lots of foreign affairs.

By: a

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:44:19 +0000

One discussion I remember from the Balliol Junior Common room is “In a democracy only informed people should be allowed to vote.”

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:09:08 +0000

In Crooked Timber Hell I am the Minister of Transportation, making sure that all my trains run once every six-seven weeks or thereabouts.

By: JP Stormcrow

JP Stormcrow — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:24:28 +0000

I’d like to volunteer to help fight the War on Christmas.

I believe that mission will be outsourced to Blackwater. (cf. Massacre at Mall of America – December 2008)

But there are plenty of spots open on the All-CT Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Profiteering and Corruption.

By: The Next to Last Pope

The Next to Last Pope — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:35:41 +0000

I’d like to volunteer to help fight the War on Christmas.

By: Scott McLemee

Scott McLemee — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:37:18 +0000

I’ve been expelled from the Proletarian Hammer Tendency. They have issued a pamphlet, Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade McLemee, but I am too busy with Homeland Security issues to respond.

By: Fats Durston

Fats Durston — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:00:48 +0000

First we read Berlin, then we take drink Manhattans. Just as long as we don't have to listen to Berlin or Manhattan Transfer.

By: JP Stormcrow

JP Stormcrow — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:44:20 +0000

Hell on Earth would be a World Government run by Crooked Timber.

I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which I can’t post due to overly restrictive Hate Speech laws.

By: Delicious Pundit

Delicious Pundit — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:07:28 +0000

You’ll still allow us to watch college football, won’t you? Because if we have to start following rugby I’m joining the reactionaries.

By: christian h.

christian h. — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:34:18 +0000

Why’s Andy surprised? Everyone knows that Crooked Timber is a front for the Proletarian Hammer Tendency.

By: thuringwethil

thuringwethil — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:58:42 +0000

Well its a good thing they haven't caught onto the sun destroying yet.