Random thought: could the millions of dollars in missiles which are near-inevitably going to be launched on Syria be better spent on broadcast airtime to show (in detail) what's happening on the ground there, in an effort to shame Russia and China (and the rest of the world) into more serious UN action? Read more

So, despite some (possible?) agreement with my general sentiment, by an official vote of approximately 1 million recommendations of comments disagreeing with me, to zero recommendations of my original post or my own explanatory comments, I stand thoroughly corrected. Read more

If this is already on Groupthink, does it really need to be clogging up Crosstalk? Read more

Somewhat related to this conversation from yesterday, I'm reading a book called JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and Why it matters and in it, the author quotes a paragraph from Thomas Merton. Read more

Denton should really be proud of the crowdsourced bullshit community moderation around here. Writers can't be bothered to remove obvious racism. Other writers take their personal vendettas to the commenters by blocking so many of us from the front pages.

Would someone be so kind as to share my post to Oppo? Thanks in advance. Read more