I guess Santa should bring me a South Park library for Xmas

Post #300,744 by Another Scott 12/6/08 9:11:37 PM Reply	I guess Santa should bring me a South Park library for Xmas I had no idea that the: 1) Topic, 2) ???, 3) Profit! meme was from South Park. http://en.wikipedia....outh_Park_episode) (You'll probably have to manually add the final parenthesis to the URL). (via Hilzoy - http://www.washingto...008_12/015952.php ) Cheers, Scott.
Post #300,750 by malraux 12/6/08 10:19:50 PM Reply	Underwear! Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #300,759 by Ashton 12/7/08 2:24:47 AM Reply	Ummm.. Oh Pun? In context -- South Park that great? re the snarky Hilzoy rant + the gamut of replies -- YAN perfect illustration that the Vietnam War is nowhere near 'settled', here in short-attention span revisionist-Murica. (There remain many non-combatants and, as always, the Chicken-hawks of that day -- who persist in the fantasy, "We Coulda/Shoulda 'Won!' ...") Something. always Unspecifiable. Just add that to the less notorious banditry committed by/for Muricans across Central America (and that other list.) We don't do Facing >\| at all. In 2018 I expect a rerun of this blog retitled, 'Winning in Iraq' cha cha cha. (Easy prediction, 2018 hot meme: 'We never apologize'.) Some pretty pithy expressions in this collection, some heard periodically these 40+ years; Hmmm - maybe in the end, the Ayers affair might galvanize something, if Muricans think we've put off the reckoning long enough (?) now we have the WWW, to separate the combatants. Could work / less blood. Everyone here seems to think that the war ended at some point. We are still fighting the same war. Posted by: tom on December 6, 2008 at 8:48 PM http://www.washingto...15952.php#1426070 POAD 'Hilzoy' -- you have No Idea what you are emoting about; you merely (barely) crack-open One of those [wish-we-could-forget] chests, in that warehouse stacked-full of similar chests, with triple-locks. Pandora had just the one. as in, http://www.washingto...15952.php#1426079 et seq. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken
Post #300,769 by Another Scott 12/7/08 11:25:50 AM Reply	I was thinking that this might be a problem. But I mainly wanted to point out the "source" of the humorous meme and indicate what drove me to thinking about it. I probably should have put it in Politics. Sorry. Hilzoy is a prof at Johns Hopkins - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Bok She's a little young to have had first-hand experience with a lot of the Vietnam-era stuff, but she probably remembers quite a bit of the TV coverage (I'm a little younger, but I remember it). She can't have the depth of feeling and nuance of someone who lived through those times as an adult, so I'm not surprised that she has a different view - and one that doesn't see the possible shades of gray. Wikipedia seems to have a good summary of the various incarnations of the Weathermen here: http://en.wikipedia....man_(organization) (You'll probably need to add the trailing parenthesis manually.) You're right that some of the same battles are still being fought. Even some of the same language is being used! Personally, I think it was appropriate for Ayers to give his side, for the record, after what happened during the campaign. I'm not sure I agree with his summary of what the Weathermen/WUO/etc. were about, but it's clear to me that it's a more nuanced position than he was caricatured as having during the campaign (no surprise there, eh?). Thanks. Cheers, Scott.

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