Comments on: Today’s Reading

By: yami

yami — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:30:00 +0000

I thought the bit with Congress and the Slut Alarm was hilarious, though, and so fitting with the everyone-gets-their-own-law zeitgeist!
If I’m ever in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery, I want Congress to pass a law specifically forbidding anyone from dressing me up in lingerie and parking me in a Victoria’s Secret. Macabre modeling in sweatshop-free stores only, please.

By: ester

ester — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:11:00 +0000

hollee shit, still laughing about the feeding tube. i can’t believe you put me in the same paragraph as GET YOUR WAR ON. now i can die happy, turn into a zombie, and feast tom delay’s hammerbrains.

By: yami

yami — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:41:00 +0000

The lovely thing about defending a tautology is that my definition of “too alien” is allowed to constitute precisely that class of pointless harangues and recycled arguments. They definitely don’t count as a serious discussion, but if they’re dished out in polite language many people try to argue otherwise.
Des: let’s try “common goal (usually beer)” and see where that gets us?

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:18:00 +0000

Weber defines, I am assured, a “party” as a group of persons united by a common goal (usually power).
Which (if you ask me) says a lot about the kind of parties he got invited to.

By: R Mutt

R Mutt — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:45:00 +0000

I don’t think the golden mean works there. OK, there are people you literally can’t communicate with; but providing you have a common language you can still communicate, and the “distance” is not too great.
That doesn’t mean you have to listen to / dish out pointless harangues recycling familiar arguments. But that doesn’t really count as a serious discussion anyway.