Comments on: A Republic, if you can keep it

By: A Blog For All

A Blog For All — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:22:48 +0000

How to Cause a Panic in Boston…

What is quite curious is that the ad campaign was in 10 cities around the country, and it only caused an uproar in Boston. Was there something about where those things were placed that made the difference or did other cities’ residents simply ignore ….

By: Jim Satterfield

Jim Satterfield — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:30:05 +0000

Reading a description of what they were meant to represent made me wonder how the authorities could be so worried about them. Then I saw a picture and had no doubt that somebody had really screwed up and hit a 100 on the overreaction meter.

By: Polimom Says » Lite-Brite masterminds

Polimom Says » Lite-Brite masterminds — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:23:57 +0000

[...] But it’s not really very funny, is it? As Jack Grant writes at TMV, this is what six years of fear-mongering has reduced us to. [...]

By: skippy

skippy — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:49:03 +0000

interestingly enough, skippy found a boston report that points out how their police department is last among all big metropolitan cities in solving major crime. also, a report from abc that the two guerilla marketeers were told by their bosses to keep quiet about their involvement in the fracas even as the chaos was unfolding yesterday.

By: cosmoetica

cosmoetica — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:06:18 +0000

So, Jack. You’re saying that Lite-Brites are not part of an Islamist plot? How about the Illuminati?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:37:33 +0000

“It is truly frightening how quickly our nation was warped into something different and how many people have applauded the change.”

I never really appreciated the power of a President till Bush turned into a nation that jumps at shadows and drops Daisey Cutters on them afterwards.

By: George Sorwell

George Sorwell — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:34:01 +0000

The Aqua Teen Hunger Force is objectively pro-terrorist.

And I’m pretty sure the milkshake attended an Indonesian madrassa.

By: Gray

Gray — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:28:32 +0000

“I would say this is a good example of how our fundamental values are ever changing and hard to pin down.”

I agree, Kevin. This bloodthirsty statement made me shudder, too:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
Jefferson, to W. S. Smith, Nov. 13. 1787

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:18:54 +0000

Not to divert the comments too far afield, but that quote by Thomas Jefferson certainly me think of a conversation I had we CS a few days ago here about “fundamental values.” TJ’s view of armed, violent revolution nourishing liberty seems certainly to be at odds with our modern pride in peaceful regieme change. I would say this is a good example of how our fundamental values are ever changing and hard to pin down.

By: domajot

domajot — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:03:28 +0000

It is truly frightening how quickly our nation was warped into something different and how many people have applauded the change.
My sad prediction is that we won’t regain our footing for some time to come.

By: Gray

Gray — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:40:43 +0000

President John F. Kennedy, welcoming forty-nine Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962:
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”