I AM WEARY TO THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL OF HAVING TO FIGHT AND PUT UP WITH BLAND DEPRECIATION, INDIFFERENCE AND INSULT SIMPLY TO MAINTAIN IN PUBLIC THAT A IS NOT NON-A.
This is semi-related, but I would be interested in hearing your views about the Crusades. I've studied the subject a small amount, and while I can see that it has very little to do with most of the modern and post-modern ideas about it (i.e. the absurd Imperialist/colonialist reading), and little to do with Islamic ideas of jihad, my actual concrete knowledge on the topic is fairly small. Do you have any good works on it you could recommend, or perhaps an essay or two on the subject? I would greatly appreciate it.
And yes, the liberal response to the Boston bombing has been absurd. But then, most liberal reactions to just about anything these days are absurd. Perhaps the worst has been the feeble attempts to somehow pin the Gosnell horror on pro-lifers...some things are simply beyond all parody.
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Date: 2013-04-29 11:31 pm (UTC)And yes, the liberal response to the Boston bombing has been absurd. But then, most liberal reactions to just about anything these days are absurd. Perhaps the worst has been the feeble attempts to somehow pin the Gosnell horror on pro-lifers...some things are simply beyond all parody.