tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post110634206202167105..comments2023-10-23T09:10:21.726-07:00Comments on Darwin's California Cat Presents Last Days of My Career as a College Professor: Ciao Meow....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post-1106438017182711342005-01-22T15:53:00.000-08:002005-01-22T15:53:00.000-08:00If one had been sailing off Sri Lanka, depending o...If one had been sailing off Sri Lanka, depending on the distance out to sea, the tsunami would have been no trouble. Deep water -- no problema. It's in shoaling geography that trouble is possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post-1106437794134485872005-01-22T15:49:00.000-08:002005-01-22T15:49:00.000-08:00So true. Watched something interesting last night....So true. Watched something interesting last night. The same day of the inaugural, a gaggle of lefties gathered at the Cooper Union in New York to discuss with each other where to go now. One woman called the legitimately elected president of the United States a "creature who crawled out from under a rock". Another guy, this time from the audience, kept going on about the Diebold machines in Ohio. One writer was convinced that Socialism in One Country could be sold to the American people if the Left became just like the Right became after the Goldwater catastrophe in 1964. <br /><br />And all at once it hit me: the "progressives" had become the reactionaries. Watching these people react to Bush's battle cry for human liberty was like watching a group of old country club Republicans try to decide whether Bucky or Tucker would cast the Black Ball to keep the negro applicant out of the country club. There was no there there. There were no new ideas.<br /><br />What the more discerning among us are catching (at least, those of us who are neither Robert Fisk nor John Pilger) is that Bush is not going to go in some Christian Crusade to convert the Muzzies to the True Faith. He does understand that a key to reducing the tendency towards violence is to increase the choices available for people in the Islamic world. Why the Left, who inveighed so mightily against Pinochet, the Indonesian malfeasance in East Timor (the subject of countless Anthony Lewis columns), the Greek Colonels, the Apartheid regime of Pretoria, has a huge problem with this at first mystified me. Then, upon watching these reactionaries throw their blackballs, I understood that when you've run out of ideas you've run out of hope.<br /><br />You've also run out of the right to govern. The Left hasn't figured that out yet. The American electorate figured that out last November.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post-1106424108188268142005-01-22T12:01:00.000-08:002005-01-22T12:01:00.000-08:00Or as they used to say, "As boring as going sailin...Or as they used to say, "As boring as going sailing off Sri Lanka." You've never seen one of those half-scale locomotives when they hit a piece of broken track, have you? That's how we lost Walt Disney.B. Wiederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12464282614988006757noreply@blogger.com