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You're a real charmer, aren't you?
"Go well through life"-Me (As far as I know)
by MTmofo on Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 11:08:51 PM PDT
But I'm curious... do you think he deserves praise (despite the massive damage he wreaked to the human condition by his sophistry as a prop for so much regressive oligarchy and elitism)? Or do you just wish I didn't speak ill of the dead?
But please don't tell me he deserves praise simply because he was brilliant. Because I'm a fan of good prose. Hell, I've got a bad reputation for a prolix way when I forget myself. I respect what he was capable of. And yet, as John Kenneth Galbraith said: "Everybody knows that William Buckley is a master of words. It is only the use to which he puts them that restrains one’s enthusiasm."
The damage he did just destroys any chance I'll speak well of him.
by d2 at 43rdstateblues on Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 11:31:03 PM PDT
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There are plenty of living people that deserve this kind of scorn.
Basic decency isn't conditional, and this is a tenet of basic decency.
You've lowered yourself considerably here, and us along with you.
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by spotDawa on Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 12:14:57 AM PDT
So... guess that makes us even.
After all, my teensy insignificant diary is so much like that debacle, both in scope and egregiousness and long-term impact.
While we're at it, let's talk Coretta King's funeral.
Or is there a good archtype of the mighty wingnut wurlitzer being respectful of the death of a liberal icon you'd like to choose from?
As I've told another concerned and sympathetic soul here, collecting a bit of rage at all his damage was my GOAL. Sorry you disagree with the methodology, but the man was a rat bastard that did more to harm our nation in his life than anyone I can think of, and in grabbing these quotes from here and there, I found plenty of people voicing identical sentiment. And he wasn't some doddering fool -- he was a talented, elitist SOB. So, hell no! I am not going to 'gracefully' sit by while the wingnuts and pundits get at their canonization of him.
Insomnia be damned; I'm going to bed. This tut-tutting is just silly.
by d2 at 43rdstateblues on Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 12:36:53 AM PDT
Keep on using evil as your standard, and you'll be just as twisted as the people you are referring to.
When it comes to basic decency, you don't look around first to see what the idiots are doing. You just do the right thing.
But you're right, this is silly. You already know it, just chose to act on your emotion instead of your good judgment. You can do better!
by spotDawa on Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 12:52:29 AM PDT
First, bite me for even remotely insinuating that what I've done is 'their level'.
Second, I can mock a rat bastard (dead or alive) and keep my integrity and immortal soul intact. I checked the warranty info on my left heel and it says so right in paragraph 16-B. Or is that foot fungus...
by d2 at 43rdstateblues on Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 01:12:30 AM PDT
and hitler too
by debedb on Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 02:07:55 AM PDT
wide narrow
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