Yet Another Busy Clanger Alert
I am Up To My Eyeballs again. If I'm quiet, slow in responding to emails or just not around this week (the BSFA on Wednesday is starting to look rather doubtful) then that's why.
2009-01-26
My thoughts on Appropriationgate*
*Since all major LJ kerfuffles acquire a hackneyed name, let's at least assign it now.
As I mentioned I'm very busy, too busy to wade into this debate (if it can even be dignified by that term now) and too put off by a prior foray into it and the treatment of many of my friends to want to do so in any depth. But I will offer up one thought it has given me:
"One way in which a liberal may be disillusioned or driven to conservatism is criticism that his or her view is not liberal enough from people more concerned with enhancing their liberal credentials than meaningfully discussing the issue at hand."
Discuss.
As I mentioned I'm very busy, too busy to wade into this debate (if it can even be dignified by that term now) and too put off by a prior foray into it and the treatment of many of my friends to want to do so in any depth. But I will offer up one thought it has given me:
"One way in which a liberal may be disillusioned or driven to conservatism is criticism that his or her view is not liberal enough from people more concerned with enhancing their liberal credentials than meaningfully discussing the issue at hand."
Discuss.
1 minute 40? I want the whole two hours!
Via various people, Robot Chicken's 'Wrath of Khan - The Opera'
alt: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ1pE4WrBzM
alt: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ1pE4WrBzM