Good comments, Byron, thank you. One of my answers to yours would be that, yes, it did reall happened that nondemocratic ideas overturned democratic society,...
Michael Antholy
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Oct 1, 2001 9:11 pm
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Michael Antholy said: "One of my answers to yours would be that, yes, it did really happened that nondemocratic ideas overturned a democratic society, for...
Byron Marshall
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Oct 1, 2001 11:58 pm
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I watched Saturday Night Live this weekend. After Mayor Giuliani gave a speech, with a whole bunch of men from various New York City departments, Paul Simon...
Timothy Virkkala
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Oct 2, 2001 12:12 am
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... One of Hegelian - or Marxist - mindset would call this stress on the system a "contradiction." Which reminds me that one of the reasons that the Nazis rose...
Timothy Virkkala
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Oct 2, 2001 12:25 am
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Tim said, apropos the Nazi's suppressing the Communists: ======================================================================= " So here we can say that the...
Byron Marshall
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Oct 2, 2001 12:59 am
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Balexand provides the whole TNR (Wieseltier) text. Thanks. The writing on Updike's too pretty writing is pretty good writing. He makes me feel brutish about...
Byron Marshall
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Oct 2, 2001 5:02 am
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Byron Marshall, apropos of the possible self-defeating nature of democracy, ... It depends. The authoritarian style of rule creation and enforcement in the ...
Timothy Virkkala
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Oct 2, 2001 1:09 pm
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... I don't care much for Updike's non-fiction. Rarely does he have all that much special to offer. His fiction, however, is another story. There are stories...
Timothy Virkkala
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Oct 2, 2001 9:19 pm
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==============================+++ @@@@@ +++=========================== My almost principal in June created a position for me, combining writing, computers, and...
Byron Marshall
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Oct 3, 2001 12:03 am
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I haven't been following the events closely this morning. So I don't know the answer to this question: Do the targets include any or all sites that were built...
Timothy Virkkala
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Oct 7, 2001 7:22 pm
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Flash, news at seven: Midge Decter, grey eminence of American commentary, stunned the world (that part that cares) this evening by announcing that she has...
Byron Marshall
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Oct 8, 2001 1:15 am
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check out this website which gives a radical and couragious view on the current wave of guerilla activity http://www.isisforum.com/index.html bob stuckey ... ...
stuckey
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Oct 8, 2001 1:26 am
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A more common view held by "educated" Arabs and other Islamic practitioners can be found here: ...
Thomas O. Merle
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Oct 8, 2001 1:57 am
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Another site similar to ISIS: http://www.golshan.com/rationalthinking/index.htm check out this website which gives a radical and couragious view on the current...
Thomas O. Merle
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Oct 8, 2001 5:34 am
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Apropos recent discussions, Julia Jones, a friend and Brunoist! sends this excellent quote: ...
Byron Marshall
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Oct 9, 2001 3:11 am
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Even if you are not a libertarian, the poll that the Libertarian Party now runs regarding the responses to terrorism is worth looking at. They are obviously...
Timothy Virkkala
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Oct 10, 2001 12:17 am
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This is from the WSJ. I pass it along as another item on the background of this situation. THE VISIBLE HAND Sudan's Angle How Clinton passed up an opportunity...
Byron Marshall
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Oct 11, 2001 9:34 pm
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On the Fox News Network today a title across the top of the screen stated: Boming continues....
Byron Marshall
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Oct 11, 2001 9:38 pm
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The Social Disease, created by mass media's political manipulation, is the following: Give citizens the impression/disillusion they are free, and they'd feel...
Michael Antholy
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Oct 15, 2001 1:14 am
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Present at the exorcism: http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/10/16/exorcism/print.html...
A Cardinal consoles a young, newly widowed woman, and in so doing characterizes himself and - more importantly - Epicureanism: "I am no moraliser, no pedantic...
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/arts/design/20HIRS.html?todaysheadlines Art Imitates Life, Perhaps Too Closely By WARREN HOGE New York Times October 20, 2001...
A few days ago, on CBS's "Everybody Loves Raymond," a new subject was found as the focus of humor: female genitalia. For some time, "penis" jokes and...
Last night Charlie Rose broadcast an amazingly fawning interview with Bill Gates. A lot of interesting questions COULD have been asked of Gates, but weren't....
I've been thinking about the things that libertarians say that annoy me. I find libertarians on these topics to be very, very annoying: 10. Almost anything to...
I just posted the little essay below to Vince Cook's Individualism list. Some of you may be interested, though it covers old ground for me, and would have to...
A friend observed that Planned Parenthood would get letters with Anthrax threats and white powders, presumably from anti-abortion extremists. The FBI...
Byron Marshall
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Oct 29, 2001 12:01 am
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I was asked what "the good word" was, recently. So I thought I'd offer one today: Venesection, noun - The medical removal of blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy. ...
I'm afraid that none of the high points of anarchist theory are touched on in this article: http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/162154p-1542312c.html...