On Nov 26, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Nov 26, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Nov 21, 2005, at 2:05 PM, David Brin wrote:
Two very strong points. Though please remember there
are some honest and intelligent Republicans. I even
know a few.
FWIW, my state has McCain, and my stepfather is without question one
of the most upstanding men I've ever known — and as a County
supervisor, does his best to be a damn good Republican too.
There are a few, but they're the ones who have not been polluted by
religion.
That's the difference.
Rather a simplistic formulation, wouldn't you say?
Probably I'm confusing correlation with causation again. It does happen
to me from time to time. Maybe a better formulation is that those who
are vicious, money-grubbing bastard Republicans who weep crocodile
tears *after* getting caught (as opposed to those who try to bareface
their way through it by denial, denial and denial) are not too
dissimilar from those who have been thoroughly polluted by
fundamentalist Christianity; and that there seems to be a rather large
intersection between those groups.
There does seem to be a common ground in both groups apparently
mourning a Golden Age that never was.
Then again, this, too, shall pass.
The problem is that a lot of innocent people will suffer and die in the
process. I guess that's why I vacillate between disgust and intolerance
for such idiots, but never anything like a quiet shrug. So on my good
days I'm often tempted to advise them to shut up; and on my bad days
I'm more tempted to advocate firing squads.
(That feels a lot like one of those grafs which will cause loud cries
of pseudo-outrage from certain quarters, but I'm going to send this
note anyway and just ignore the false claims of wounded sensitivities.)
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
<http://books.nightwares.com/>
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
<http://books.nightwares.com/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf>
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