Thoughts on an unwinnable war and meta-fors.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt113.html

[cadged from jabber, who is a damn fine source of thought, commentary, and links]

Critical of both sides, and very well-considered.

I wish the flood of traffic the post that got metaquoted would continue to hit the other material linked up, because, while there's a lot of truth out there, only looking at part of it, while better than not seeing any of it, isn't as good as seeing more of it.

The hard part, for me, is knowing when to cut myself off, because (as was noted at the bottom of one of the links I was chaining along on Friday), I tend to read and chase to the point of making myself manifestly ill with stress and need to unplug altogether. There is simply -so much- quality information and commentary out there that trying to grasp even a fraction of it becomes overwhelming, and forces a shutdown.

Escape? Sure, there was some "Hooray, Death! The WoW Drinking Game" engaged in, and yesterday was spent in that finest of suburban male frivolities - parked on the couch while twenty-two big, fast motherfuckers ran into one another.

Saturday was spent doing a lot of yardwork, and a questionable decision to pay a crazy redneck with a chainsaw to climb onto my roof to prune the tree that overhangs the house (in retrospect, payment in full should have been withheld until he hauled all the debris away - I may need to rent a wood chipper to dispose of it, as well as his body. Fortunately, being a tool, he used my cel phone to call his brother, so I can track them down with a strategic application of technology if need be). To his credit, he did a pretty good job, and it really opens up that side of the property while still leaving plenty of shade for the roof.

Tonight is a dinner date with aishlynn, and Wednesday finds us lurching to TBBC to mock angel_sil for getting old.

Comments

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Between the never ending war in Iraq (wasn't there a declaration of major conflict being over made from the deck of an aircraft carrier with Dubya wearing a flight suit, or am I just dreaming all of that?) and the governments failure to assist in an appropriate manner with a full scale disaster on our shores, you can get pretty burnt out on it all. I guess that's one of the reasons for apathy in t his country. What I think people need is not so much more information as a meaningful thing to do once they've obtained enough information to have come to an informed opinion.

Have fun at dinner, relax (you've earned it) and give the Kimmeister a hug for me.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

are you suggesting that the tailhook thing might have been done for shrub's jollies and a propaganda photo op?

kind of like his visit to NOLA last week?

i mean, "support our president and the troops. seig heil!"

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Ya think? ;D

[dogsbody01.livejournal.com]

"I see" said the Blind Woman, as she kissed the door and slammed her Husband.