a wonderful sentiment, Alan... ha'n't read that book, but it's on my list with the rest of the books on the planet...
as i sit here in Beijing, on the eve of National Day, i can't help thinking about my own patriotism... i am patriotic and don't feel bad about it, after all, i have taken quite a few things from America which are simply unavailable in other places... we're lucky that we can pursue our desires and make bold statements like yours... i plan to go down to "the square" tomorrow and take part in the celebration here with the rest of the Chinese nationals up in this piece... and i say that with full respect for all of you gov't folks filtering this message... i don't know your background, but i assume you have taken advantage of that system just as i have... where do you work? what do you do? say hello to your computer for me... where were you educated? who gave you money to pursue your projects? just guessing... and when you talk about your kids, you're saying the same things that my grandfather and the rest of our grandparents have been saying forever... perhaps i'm missing the point... i'm too often tangential like that... i don't know if we're laughed at, but we're certainly not the most popular peeps trotting the globe... my gov't is what it is... get up in it... let's box! -- Bob Marcacci Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. - Yassir Arafat > From: Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" > <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:26:06 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: aarggh > > The religious should be shot before the kill the rest of us; read Sam > Harris' The End of Faith if you haven't. The US is the laughing-stock of > the world and its kids are being short-changed while growing stupider in > relation to the rest of humankind. But what do you expect when we have > bigotry enthroned? This country is a horror. > > - Alan > > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Ryan Whyte wrote: > >> now the 'intelligent design' debate is on in the US and something like >> 2/3rds of americans think creationism should be taught in schools; >> meanwhile, Bush wants to spend billions going to the moon to build roads >> there, as if the war and hurricane cleanup weren't costly enough and the >> gap between rich and poor not a shameful howling chasm. (not that canada >> is any better, today I read that we've decided to share nuclear technology >> with, wait for it...India, just as the liberals announce no new money for >> aboriginal health and communities. and we're just itching to ramp up trade >> with China, that bastion of freedoms). technofetishism and religion go >> hand in hand, and our leaders evidently wish to kill us all on the way to >> destroying our ability to reason. Michael Ignatief advises the democrats, >> possibly the most useless party in the history of mankind, not to talk >> down to religious folks. but that would require a saintliness I for one do >> not possess.... >> >> > > ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - > revised 7/05 )
