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January 13th, 2005 Parade of the Vanities - The Conservative Blogosphere is still arguing over the CBS Forgery Report. As one blogger puts it there are two camps - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks - with the Bolsheviks saying the report was not enough and the Mensheviks saying it is better than nothing. To reiterate my own position and stake out my own claim:
In short, I'm a Menshevik who points out the problems of having the White Russians investigating the Tsars, but also points out that the revolutionaries are now in charge of the rail lines. Egads, I hate this analogy. The whole discussion makes me realize that this Non Sequitur comic from last year is completely apt:
We think ourselves so big, yet our reach is, as yet, so small. Living by Vesuvius - My favorite sight from the mudslides in California is the video of the giant boulder being detonated by TNT. Flash-Slip-Crash-Dust, and the score is Nature 12, Man 1. Personally, given the geologic and weather related problems of the entire state, you would have to pay me exorbitant sums to live in California. But I'm different than other people, particularly ones who want to move back to the town that is being washed away. Build your house on the rock: not just excellent spiritual advice but practical when dealing with nature, too. Of course, just about everywhere has some kind of problem sometime - the entire Earth changes for a reason - but that doesn't mean we have to live in a place with high insurance rates. Of course, some people never change, despite all attempts at forcing reason upon them. I say withhold state funds from their rebuilding project. Let their insurance company foot the bill, that's what they are paid for. If the insurance company won't pay to rebuild their home in the same place their old one was washed away, maybe they should move somewhere else. The reason for the pro-life position is life itself - Even if this little one gets cancer later, its better than the suggested alternative. Whenever I see a story like this I feel like socking a pro-choice shill in the mouth. But then again, that line of reasoning rarely, if ever, works. One of the few benefits of war is good poetry - I was having trouble composing a poem today, but then I picked up on this from Blackfive. He went to Jennifer's high school. A problem with identifying your position - Just as I find that Peggy Noonan and Will Collier have agreed with me - that journalists should identify their political preferences, so as to help viewers/readers interpret the story - I find this. Are bloggers and journalists willing to identify their income sources if that source is what they write about? What if they are not able to, because of some non-disclosure agreement? How legally applicable would such an agreement be? If they do disclose, is that functionally any different than having an emotional benefit from the success of your advocated position/candidate? We are so very small, indeed. |
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