Comments on: Low Concept Content http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/ America's favorite blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:09:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Dee http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3223 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3223 All along you've been saying what I've been thinking about Iraq - Saddam was evil and he needed to be dealt with. But we sure managed to do it in the worst possible way, from alienating our friends to poor military planning to selling our souls to Halliburton et al. The problem starts at the top, with the "You're either with us or against us" policy. Fighting terrorism is a complex problem that requires a thoughful and forceful response. Too bad we only got it half right. AND, Adam, I believe you can look forward to some kosher coal in your stocking this year. No Santa, indeed!!!! All along you’ve been saying what I’ve been thinking about Iraq - Saddam was evil and he needed to be dealt with. But we sure managed to do it in the worst possible way, from alienating our friends to poor military planning to selling our souls to Halliburton et al. The problem starts at the top, with the “You’re either with us or against us” policy. Fighting terrorism is a complex problem that requires a thoughful and forceful response. Too bad we only got it half right.

AND, Adam, I believe you can look forward to some kosher coal in your stocking this year. No Santa, indeed!!!!

]]> by: Benedict http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3224 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3224 I would like to see more vats of custard in the Public School system AND the DoD. I would like to see more vats of custard in the Public School system AND the DoD.

]]> by: Anonymous http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3225 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3225 mmmmmmm, CUSTARD mmmmmmm, CUSTARD

]]> by: Bob http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3226 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3226 I'm sick and tired of all the whining from the Let's Blame Joey Felber First crowd. And that Mrs. Carlyle must really hate primary education. I’m sick and tired of all the whining from the Let’s Blame Joey Felber First crowd. And that Mrs. Carlyle must really hate primary education.

]]> by: Brad Johnson http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3227 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3227 An entertaining analogy, but it should have included: "Then again, Joey's best friend, Robert (who does not exist--I mean, I'm not saying Joey has imaginary friends; well, let's just say Joey and Robert have equivalent existence metrics) did show me his plans a few weeks beforehand which outlined having Joey lob a grenade into the bully's lunch box so that Robert could step in and run the lunch-money racket at the school." Kerry, McCain, etc. were trusting Bush to be responsible, when the people in charge of Bush's foreign policy have been planning and advocating invading Iraq for years. And <i>that</i> is why they should have been less gullible. An entertaining analogy, but it should have included: “Then again, Joey’s best friend, Robert (who does not exist–I mean, I’m not saying Joey has imaginary friends; well, let’s just say Joey and Robert have equivalent existence metrics) did show me his plans a few weeks beforehand which outlined having Joey lob a grenade into the bully’s lunch box so that Robert could step in and run the lunch-money racket at the school.”

Kerry, McCain, etc. were trusting Bush to be responsible, when the people in charge of Bush’s foreign policy have been planning and advocating invading Iraq for years.

And that is why they should have been less gullible.

]]> by: Jacob http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3228 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3228 Adam, Was this weeks WWDTM taping pre- or post-Commentapalooza? Just curious... Adam,

Was this weeks WWDTM taping pre- or post-Commentapalooza? Just curious…

]]> by: John Isbell http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3229 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3229 FUN POST. OH WAIT... FUN POST. OH WAIT…

]]> by: Joshua Scholar http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3230 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3230 There's nothing that makes Adam Felber so depressed that he needs to crawl into an imaginary bottle like ... like the end of an oppressive fascist regime. Then there's the "we did it wrong" canard: - Our few "allies" who were against us would NEVER have allowed Iraq to be liberated. - As for the horrible violence you pretend to deplore - it was less violence than any invasion in history, and less violence than Saddam perpetrated on his people and neighbors on an ongoing basis - as no doubt his psychotic sons would have continued for the next 50 years. So you're basically crying over the fact that we saved lives and brought freedom the least violent way possible. Of course this also brought an end to the embargo and so people have a chance to live prosperous lives too for the first time. I don't know what weird values make you hallucinate that doing the best mitzvah possible (a mitzvah is a good deed) is a horrible crime... I guess your values don’t allow you to take <i>reality</i> into account. This brings up my argument about whether you’re funny. I guess partisan satire has to have a good cause behind it. No one would remember an imaginary Mark Twain who wrote Huck Fin as a satire <i>in favor</i> of slavery. Or just maybe they would, Mark Twain was a much less self righteous writer than you are despite the fact that he (the real Mark Twain) wrote satire supporting infinitely more righteous causes. Remember Chrissie Hyde talking about how she supports the Taliban killing apostates and the like? And all the while she’s writing songs about having sex with anonymous strangers while her favorite Taliban are executing women for minor sins like having their hair styled. Your opinions are as disconnected from reality as <i> Chrissie Hyde’s.</i> Satire in the service of ignorance is hard to take. Actually understanding things hasn’t destroyed Dennis Miller’s career, you know. There’s nothing that makes Adam Felber so depressed that he needs to crawl into an imaginary bottle like … like the end of an oppressive fascist regime.

Then there’s the “we did it wrong” canard:
- Our few “allies” who were against us would NEVER have allowed Iraq to be liberated.
- As for the horrible violence you pretend to deplore - it was less violence than any invasion in history, and less violence than Saddam perpetrated on his people and neighbors on an ongoing basis - as no doubt his psychotic sons would have continued for the next 50 years.

So you’re basically crying over the fact that we saved lives and brought freedom the least violent way possible.

Of course this also brought an end to the embargo and so people have a chance to live prosperous lives too for the first time.

I don’t know what weird values make you hallucinate that doing the best mitzvah possible (a mitzvah is a good deed) is a horrible crime… I guess your values don’t allow you to take reality into account.

This brings up my argument about whether you’re funny. I guess partisan satire has to have a good cause behind it. No one would remember an imaginary Mark Twain who wrote Huck Fin as a satire in favor of slavery.

Or just maybe they would, Mark Twain was a much less self righteous writer than you are despite the fact that he (the real Mark Twain) wrote satire supporting infinitely more righteous causes.

Remember Chrissie Hyde talking about how she supports the Taliban killing apostates and the like? And all the while she’s writing songs about having sex with anonymous strangers while her favorite Taliban are executing women for minor sins like having their hair styled. Your opinions are as disconnected from reality as Chrissie Hyde’s. Satire in the service of ignorance is hard to take. Actually understanding things hasn’t destroyed Dennis Miller’s career, you know.

]]> by: Katie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3231 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3231 HEY!!! How dare you imply that Minneapolis is a place of wild promicuity and indeterminate procreating!! As a card carrying Minnesotan, I resent that implication! How DARE you! Katie, in Minnesota HEY!!!

How dare you imply that Minneapolis is a place of wild promicuity and indeterminate procreating!! As a card carrying Minnesotan, I resent that implication! How DARE you!

Katie, in Minnesota

]]> by: Katie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3232 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/12/13/low-concept-content/#comment-3232 <i> oh, and by the way.... if you could just email me exactly where your wife was staying while in Minneapolis, I could go and check it out. For the good of all minnesotans of course. </i> oh, and by the way…. if you could just email me exactly where your wife was staying while in Minneapolis, I could go and check it out. For the good of all minnesotans of course.

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