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by John Cole|  July 31, 200710:19 am| 20 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Gold Star for Robot Boy

    July 31, 2007 at 10:43 am

    Busy.

    Signal.
    Body.
    Work.

  2. 2.

    Psycheout

    July 31, 2007 at 10:49 am

    Chief Justice John Roberts needs your prayers.

    And be sure to pray for Sam Brownback.

  3. 3.

    srv

    July 31, 2007 at 10:57 am

    About time for a resveratol update, Tim.

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    July 31, 2007 at 11:06 am

    Busy.

    Hmmm….

    Shaving the cat?
    Buying 6 diff brands of cat food?
    Bandaging your hand after giving Hindrocket and Jeffe Goldcockslap a beat down?
    Checking Hola Fruta’s stock price?
    Dining with Steve Slaton?

  5. 5.

    dslak

    July 31, 2007 at 11:36 am

    The Blogs for Brownback site is a laugh riot. I can’t tell where the actual Brownback supporters end and the spoofs begin. That blog is going to kill absurdist humor.

  6. 6.

    jenniebee

    July 31, 2007 at 11:57 am

    Levy asks “Has any work of political philosophy ever caused the realization of its ideas in the society of its writer’s birth?” This is hardly the forum for a review of the history of western political thought, but Jacob you tempt me irresistibly. Of course philosophy is only one influence, but surely you don’t intend to deny that Hobbesian antipatriarchal social contract theory and its later variant deployed by John Locke played a role in the downfall of the Stuart monarchy?

    Discuss.

  7. 7.

    cleek

    July 31, 2007 at 12:09 pm

    Discuss

    what’s the sound of one hand typing?

  8. 8.

    demimondian

    July 31, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    what’s the sound of one hand typing?

    I’ve usually heard it transcribed as “fwap-fwap-fwap”. That’s certainly the sound the this kind of deep intellectual discourse brings to mind.

  9. 9.

    srv

    July 31, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    Discuss.

    I’m sure some Greeks would count
    Hitler
    Mao Zedong
    Ho Chi Minh

    Why exactly should natives be best suited to philosophically revolutionize their own culture? Imagine if Thomas Paine had been born in colonies…

  10. 10.

    Andrei

    July 31, 2007 at 12:39 pm

    I’m curious to hear what Markos thinks now that you’ve classified him as a Center To Right blogger.

  11. 11.

    Dreggas

    July 31, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    cleek Says:

    Discuss

    what’s the sound of one hand typing?

    heavy panting.

  12. 12.

    mrmobi

    July 31, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    Chief Justice John Roberts needs your prayers.

    And be sure to pray for Sam Brownback.

    Well, I don’t really pray, (not being a believer) but I hope that the Chief Justice is ok.

    Psyche-boy, if I did pray, I would pray for a Sam Brownback candidacy for POTUS.

    Let me explain. I’ve been trying to determine which Republican candidates would be the most un-electable in that diminutive, politically-challenged group, and, absent a Gingrich Candidacy, I think SAM’S THE MAN.

    He’s got the ignorant, anti-science thing happening, and he’s part and parcel of the hard-core knuckle dragger constituency. For his running mate, I suggest Terri Schaivo. (she could still be all right, someone saw her eyes move in a video!)

    I vow to support his candidacy in hopes that Barack Obama gives him a spanking in 2008 that puts the one the Clenis gave to Bob Dole to shame, and reminds all Americans that the conservative movement has no ideas left, and nothing at all to offer, absent permanent war and the dismantling of our democracy.

    Word to the wise, Psyche-boy, if you’re going to sell stupid, you have to try harder.

  13. 13.

    Tim F.

    July 31, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    I’m curious to hear what Markos thinks now that you’ve classified him as a Center To Right blogger.

    Blogroll is on the fritz right now. Everybody goes in the first category because that’s the only one whose links show up on the site.

  14. 14.

    Dreggas

    July 31, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    Regarding the “Center right” thing,

    seems to me with how completely fucked up our craptastic country is politically, that pretty much anyone is center right given for what passes as “right” these days.

  15. 15.

    Psycheout

    July 31, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    SAM’S THE MAN.

    I couldn’t agree more, mrmobi.

  16. 16.

    Third Eye Open

    July 31, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    How Gay Are You?

    I guess the answer depends on how excited you are that 300 comes out today on DVD.

    The world is finally starting to emerge from the shortage of body-oil and gold glitter that this movie caused.

    All-hail Sparta!

  17. 17.

    Psycheout

    July 31, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    The terrists love Guantanamo Bay so much, we can’t get them to leave!

    Please Let Me Stay at Club Gitmo!

  18. 18.

    Dreggas

    July 31, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    Third Eye Open Says:

    How Gay Are You?

    I guess the answer depends on how excited you are that 300 comes out today on DVD.

    The world is finally starting to emerge from the shortage of body-oil and gold glitter that this movie caused.

    All-hail Sparta!

    That movie really had something for everyone, on one hand there was gratuitous nudity, violence and gore which the male half of the audience could enjoy and mutant 8 packs for abs which the women could enjoy.

  19. 19.

    cain

    August 1, 2007 at 1:59 am

    So, what’s this I hear about 20K more troops heading to Iraq? Whose left to defend us in case the homeland gets attacked? Looks like nobody. Might have to get some brown people to help. “What can brown do for you?”

    cain

  20. 20.

    louisms

    August 2, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    In talking to an associate of mine who’s a self-identified christian conservative, I brought up the subject of hypocritical politicians preaching moral values while living lives of debauchery. “At least Clinton didn’t preach sexual morality while engaging in his sorted affair”, I said, to which my associate replied with a straight face “Well, at least the conservative sinners did” He explained the “logic” of this by saying that a person’s sins are between him and his God,and that he was sure that the straying theocons had asked for, and received God’s forgiveness. “The important thing”,, he continued, “is that, sinners or not, these men were bearing witness to God’s will with their words” (!!)

    There you have it. Religious Conservatism in a nutshell. All you gotta do is talk the talk. Lip service is more important than actual behavior. As long as these guys prop up their fellow believer’s mythologies, practicing what they preach is optional. Sin, repent, sin, repent ad nauseaum. Just keep invoking JEESus, and you can live like Caligula without risking losing the support of your fellow true believers.

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