We make a new you
I'll let someone else explain that reference. That Bastard Ellis has turned me off of comics for a while. When does the next issue of Finder come out?
From the not-recently-updated-but-things-are-a-bit-hectic-now-no? Common Dreams, Anita Roddick writes:
How I Became a Target for America's ZealotsSomehow, my expression of dismay [ at 9/11, what else?] was twisted in a highly selective retelling in the New York Post, a right-wing tabloid, as "an America-loathing diatribe. Little... in the foreign press outside al-Jazeera comes close to Roddick's viciousness". I was astonished to read that I was suddenly a supporter of terrorism and a hater of Americans and devastated at the idea that any American would assume that I was not outraged by the barbaric attacks of 11 September.
So let me just be absolutely clear about this – I hate terrorism and I hate terrorists.
It's not so bad that people actually need to explicitly state this.
It's not going to convince the idiots, sorry, anti-idiotarians. They desperately need to feel besieged, surrounded by enemies foreign and domestic. Given that they're mostly white, middle-class and about as safe from terrorism, crime and STDs as it's possible to be without actually sitting in a bunker somewhere or being dead, this mystfies me a bit.
But only when I try to comprehend their thought. Waste of time, that. Their philosophy ultimately breaks down to, "Us Good, Them Bad."
Which is exactly how the fundamentalists on the other side view the world as well. You'd think they could hammer out their differences and establish a nice, fascist utopia that would satisfy them both.
Y'know, the Taliban lighten up on the dress code for women, the right-wingers here start substituting "Allah" for "God" and "Koran" for "Bible," it really could work out for the best for all involved.
Ok, maybe not all. . .