tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3937396683737987478..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: From His Orbital Platform High Above The Earthdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-78466547304770060922015-12-17T00:15:05.138-06:002015-12-17T00:15:05.138-06:00Miroslav Volf - Allah:A Christian Response:
Volf d...Miroslav Volf - Allah:A Christian Response:<br />Volf develops his own method of assessing the issue and argues that Muslims and Christians do have a common God, even though each group understands God in different ways, at least in part.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15575110723273932535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83089432009987044602015-12-16T22:15:28.249-06:002015-12-16T22:15:28.249-06:00Miroslav Volf is a theologian, and a very good one...Miroslav Volf is a theologian, and a very good one. I would guess Brooks would rip off his thought, misrepresenting what is important as he does with everything else he has brought into his "character quest."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14362743798316609332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-47706707416702853232015-12-16T03:58:04.097-06:002015-12-16T03:58:04.097-06:00I'm impressed that Bernie Sanders just made hi...I'm impressed that Bernie Sanders just made history with the highest ever number of individual donors for a presidential candidate. <br /><br />It is major depression inducing as hell that he was able to do so with only 2 million donors in a nation of 286+ million adults. <br /><br />Way too many tuned out people in this country that have just plain forgotten or never been told that the duty of a citizen is to participate in their democracy. And while voting isn't the be all end all of participation, you can't really participate in democracy without voting. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-24219354794805743142015-12-15T18:33:06.240-06:002015-12-15T18:33:06.240-06:00The New York Times Editorial Page, home of David B...The New York Times Editorial Page, home of David Brooks. Maureen Dowd. Thomas Friedman. These people have more issues than 52 years of TV Guide, and they are hell bent on inflicting them upon anyone willing to pay to read them. <br /><br />As a fundraiser, DG, why don't you have a contest to see who can produce the most Brooksian babble (we would pay to enter). <br /><br />And who in the f**k is Miroslav Volf? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141640791663745884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-78889428626630594492015-12-15T15:45:17.184-06:002015-12-15T15:45:17.184-06:00"...the horrors on the Right, etc."
To ...<i>"...the horrors on the Right, etc."</i><br /><br />To $#!+can Godwin's Law yet again, I wonder at what point the "respectable" German versions of Scrooge McDuck and his faithful servant David Brooks finally realized they were not going to be able simply to put "Charlie Chaplin" and his bully-boys out to pasture after "Charlie" and company had squelched those irksome Marxists for them.<br /><br />For the most efficient self-deluders, awareness probably dawned only when they were fleeing westward with all possible speed to be able to surrender to the Western allies, instead of to millions of enraged Soviet soldiers looking to avenge their 20 million fallen siblings.<br /><br />But, as a noted <i>conservative</i> intellectual said (they do not even listen to their own): <i>"The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn."</i><br /><br />Or, we <i>do</i> learn--it's just that, usually, animal drives, including the social-dominance drive, are stronger than reason.Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-23115932171610505772015-12-15T15:43:36.386-06:002015-12-15T15:43:36.386-06:00There is psycho-babble and then there's Brooks...There is psycho-babble and then there's Brooksian psycho-babble or Bobo-Babble, if you will. Even George Will is not quite as pompously patronizing as our David. "In the room the pundits come and go/Speaking plaudits of Both-Siderist Bobo."Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90591746282740485482015-12-15T14:31:26.820-06:002015-12-15T14:31:26.820-06:00"There is a house above the world, where the ..."There is a house above the world, where the over-people gather.<br />"There is a man with wings like a bird.<br />"There is a man who can see across the planet and wring diamonds from its anthracite.<br />"There is a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues.<br />"In the house above the world, the over-people gather... and sit... and listen... to a dry, mad voice that whispers of earthdeath."<br /><br />Alan Moore knows the score.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-85976665773525540982015-12-15T12:28:09.156-06:002015-12-15T12:28:09.156-06:00In Scientology, those tiny porous capsules are cal...In Scientology, those tiny porous capsules are called engrams.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55674590994583370352015-12-15T12:07:14.190-06:002015-12-15T12:07:14.190-06:00" . . . dropping little passive-voice turds ...." . . . dropping little passive-voice turds . . "<br /><br />I bow before you and repeat again, "what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed".<br /><br />I know the road is hard, but your work is good and this crap which we have to put up with will, in the end, go the way of the ancien regime and the Thousand Year Reich. Patience. Commitment. Courage.<br /><br />Bernie Sanders now has over 2 million individual donors, the highest ever for a presidential candidate. Perhaps the difference between us and the sink of Rome under the weight of their plutocrats is that their plebes didn't have cell phones, social media or the Internet as ours do. I await the "national security" campaign to shut all those down "to fight terrorism".bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.com