tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post9206614459196947090..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: What Good Is Power If You Don't Use It?Susan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-7694282584709300952011-11-25T11:05:58.284-06:002011-11-25T11:05:58.284-06:00That is one scary lucid analysis of the Conservati...That is one scary lucid analysis of the Conservative psyche. Well shot, Texas Sue >;-) The possibility that we might wind up governed by these lunatics! Theme Park America! The only ride will be an unregulated 9-gee rollercoaster; when you get to the end, a minimum-wage-making teenager dressed like a Wall Street Banker punches you in the neck. Plus, Jeebus. Lots & lots of Jeebus...Kordohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567628870354015474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-26898333265289699182011-11-23T09:26:39.585-06:002011-11-23T09:26:39.585-06:00Funny thing is, these guys share a common platform...Funny thing is, these guys share a common platform with the Ayn Rand acolytes.<br /><br />Maybe it is not really that funny. Rand, of course, made it all about sex as a weapon over women - including rape as a gesture of 'surrender' - by the rapist.<br /><br />But Rand also argued forcefully that Power is completely useless - at least her heroes never really went after power - religious or political. <br /><br />While arguing that we should submit to our <b>business elite</b>, she did argue forcefully against the tyranny of the Church. In one memorable passage from the Fountainhead, (later repeated in Atlas Shrugged) she lays bare the power argument: <br /><br />'You gain power by making so many things illegal that people <b>have</b> to break the law. Who needs a nation of law-abiding citizens? If you don't have enough crimes or sins, then you create new ones. Make people feel guilty and you have got them by the balls'<br /><br />Which is exactly what Kathryn Jean-Lopez is feeling right now: guilt about all the wrong things. No guilt about letting people starve or unable to get medical help in the richest nation in the world. But guilt about having sex.cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02438583188725326668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-43763075219623870562011-11-22T13:03:45.955-06:002011-11-22T13:03:45.955-06:00Possibly related.
~<a href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201111220006" rel="nofollow">Possibly related</a>.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-25593327184971993962011-11-22T11:50:23.647-06:002011-11-22T11:50:23.647-06:00If you put " for women" after all his cl...If you put " for women" after all his claims it makes perfect sense.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-52665388795580722702011-11-22T11:40:47.724-06:002011-11-22T11:40:47.724-06:00"Many traditional African cultures themselves..."Many traditional African cultures themselves prized virginity and held marriage, faithfulness, family life and the like in high regard."<br /><br />Yes, of course. That's why the most common way that AIDS is spend in many countries in Africa is child r/a/p/e/ sex with HIV-infected males, most of whom wouldn't use condoms with their p/r/e/y/ partners even if they had them.<br /><br />So I guess I completely agree with Hanley when he says that "Catholic leaders in Africa have noted that its core teachings on sexuality are neither impossible not incompatible with its own traditions."<br /><br />At least if we read "core teachings" as "What We Did in Boston, NY, and Ireland, among other places, except that Africans also use girls" instead of following scripture.Ken Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440837287933536370noreply@blogger.com