tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post6296939407757386457..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: If We Can Threaten To Put Another Man On The Moon, Why Can't We Make Self-Anihilating Rhetoric Than Really Self-Anihilates?James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-35965163253962248782008-08-19T20:09:00.000-04:002008-08-19T20:09:00.000-04:00Four days late with a comment that no one, not eve...Four days late with a comment that no one, not even the esteemed D. Riley will read, but to go on:<BR/><BR/>Hypocrisy only works as an ethical concept, it seems to me, when and if it's accepted by a critical mass of observers that most of the behavior of the people under observation is reasonably right and moral, most of the time.<BR/><BR/>Once the idea got a firm foothold that All Politicians Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-32931310876641773452008-08-15T11:24:00.000-04:002008-08-15T11:24:00.000-04:00Right on target as usual. It's always amazed me ju...Right on target as usual. It's always amazed me just how transparently bogus the "Conservatism" scam has always been, and yet folks bought the goods and still do. It's as if there are masses of people for whom Lionel Barrymore is the <I>hero</I> in those Capra movies. All the more remarkable since you didn't have to be Vance Packard, either—the hypocrisy and bullshit of the Reagan crew was Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-75202605643704856812008-08-14T20:29:00.000-04:002008-08-14T20:29:00.000-04:00It could be the 12-hour time difference. You know...It could be the 12-hour time difference. You know, where night is day and day is night (or more plainly, black is white and white is black).<BR/><BR/>I rather think it's something different: the few neurons that are out protesting for freedom for all neurons are quickly rounded up, the tubes that get data in from the outside world are blocked, and the dingy areas of his mind are Potemkinized.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com