Muslims and Lutherans LILEKS finds an absolutely sick site, a forum for Muslim teens, where they describe how they'd kill Jews, given the chance. He remembers his Midwestern Lutheran upbringing, and how unthinkable such hateful thoughts are to the average American Christian. Love the insider Lutheran humor.
Have I mentioned that Lileks may be the best writer in the blogosphere?
Go there and follow the links provided.
Update Little Green Footballs notices the same website and its sickness. Read through the 265+ comments if you have the time.
:: Walter 9:07 AM [+] ::
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:: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 ::
More Neighbors I had never seen this lovely blog until I noticed an incoming link. Actually, you get two for one there, a husband and wife team. Coloradoans, it seems. We'll have to have another one of those blogger bash thingies soon, so my wife and I can meet all the locally based bloggers. Again.
:: Walter 5:55 PM [+] ::
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:: Sunday, August 04, 2002 ::
ILTE of the Day That's Idiotic Letter To the Editor for those of you keeping score at home.
Today's winner is Jim Silva, who hails from Denver. He thinks the recent E. Coli scare is the occasion to push a vegan lifestyle. How many illnesses and deaths will it take before American consumers consign meat consumption to the garbage heap of lifestyle history, along with smoking and drug addiction?
My guess is a whole lot more. As for smoking and drug addiction, it seems that the desire for intoxication is a biological urge, like sex. Of course addiction is bad, but if you're trying to get rid of meat and drugs you might as well go for the trifecta and try to ban sex while your at it.
Jim, please run for public office. Make speeches in places where I can throw smelly rotten things at you. Please.
:: Walter 7:48 PM [+] ::
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Practically all of the Socialist Party platform on which Norman Thomas ran in 1928 has been implemented. Thomas himself noticed this as far back as 1962, exulting that: "The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly."
If you dislike socialism, you're about 40 years late in abandoning the Republican party.
Mr. Derbyshire is completely wrong about other things, however:
Pop culture is filth. It is now completely degenerate. Why do you never hear anyone humming a current pop song any more? Because none of them is hummable, or even worth bothering to remember.
That's only on the radio. Good, or even brilliant pop music is out there. You have only to look for it. I'm humming it every day.
(Link via Libertarian Samizdata)
:: Walter 7:10 PM [+] ::
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