Saturday, February 2, 2002 |
01:55 - A Cautionary Note
http://inappropriate.blogspot.com/?/2002_01_27_inappropriate_archive.html
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Moira Breen of Inappropriate Response has a checklist of advice to people who write stupid editorials or blogs about the war and Those Damned Americans:
If you find yourself incapable of writing a column which isn't a rehash and reordering of some or all of the following themes, you, my friend, have nothing of substance to say:
1) You have an uncontrollable urge to nakedly display your scientific and political ignorance by invoking Kyoto as unassailable evidence of America's selfish, childish refusal to behave like a responsible member of the world community. (You don't know carbon dioxide from Carmen Electra, but you do know how those Americans are...)
Plus a bunch more, all of which are (of course) represented in a Guardian article which she carefully deconstructs tired-old-argument by tired-old-argument. If you're American, read it and enjoy. If you're not, this is a pretty good summary of the War Thus Far: all the overseas anti-war anti-unilateralism rhetoric neatly collapsed into a single Big-Gulp-sized measure, easily corralled and contained for Breen to smash into itty bitty pieces.
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