SpawnoftheDevil, that sounds like a good course. I recognise some of the techniques I use to handle my family, but not as consistently and deliberately applied.
I think everyone's in agreement that trying to invade Iran is a Bad Idea; it's much larger than either Iraq or Afghanistan, has more population, and not ideal terrain (neither does Afghanistan) for our ground forces. We don't have the men to fight wars in three different countries simultaneously either.
Also, it would be an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation, which, repulsive as their human rights record is, hasn't in fact attacked the US. It may be considered a bad idea for that reason, too.
Terry # 22
I'm with you on preparedness - my personal motto is, 'I might never need this knowledge or skill. But if I ever need it, I'm either ready or dead.'
This year we're actually doing something for Thanksgiving (European...) - we're throwing a wake for one of my in-laws. This means serious amounts of various kinds of food (I am, as usual, in charge of dessert as the SO doesn't cook sweet), some drinking, and a heady mixture of regret and celebration.
What strikes me as the major similarity between a child molester and this family is that both treat the child as though he/she were adult and capable of making all their own choices. The wilful denial of the child's vulnerability and the harm coming to said child is the act I would define as evil (the act, not the person).
And I am on the net anonymously; sorry, you all, but there are reasons for this...
I was at Stansted airport on year on 11 November; I will never forget the silence that spread, like rings on water, throughout the terminals. It was eerie and sad and strangely unifying, even for me - and I come from a country that hasn't been to war in 200 years.
Every year I read this poem to my students (http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/30782-Ivor-Gurney-To-His-Love) as being the best description I know of the suffering of war.
Well, you know, Swedes, they tend to not to obsessively read the New Yorker or have many pretentions. I think it's the cold and the very dark winters that keeps them more grounded in reality. They also don't have much brie there, that also helps.
I take exception to this. We have plenty of brie...
Actually, cold and dark winters is why we read writers like Doris Lessing. What else is there to do in a day that has four hours of daylight?
I ended up male, as usual, whether it was my non-fiction (gender studies) or blog entries on feminism. I suppose this might explain why I get all that spam about chest enlargements, because clearly that would make it more obvious I'm a girl...
While I strongly believe in taking religious discourse back from the people who are currently owning it, I'd like to state that I have no desire to be the backbone of any party whatsoever. The backbone of a party is its political agenda and its voters.
Traditional announcement of the Christmas peace in Abo (or is it Helsinki?), translated in a way that, alas, does not capture the archaic turns of the original. This is read every Christmas Eve - I tend to watch it on TV to get in a Chrostmas mood.
Tomorrow, God willing, will be our Lord and Saviour's gracious birthday celebration, and thus let it be known that a general Christmas peace is announced and commanded, with a warning to all and sundry to celebrate this holiday with proper piety, and observe a quiet and peaceful demeanor, since he who breaks this peace and besmirches the Christmas celebration with any illegal or immoral act, is subject to the severest form of punishment which laws and regulation demand for each crime and misdemeanor. Finally all who inhabit this country are wished a merry Christmas.
Therapeutic violence? That's what computer games are for.
I've only read the description of the incident here, and think I don't want to see the video...but I have this to say. I used to work security, and I know something about subduing people. Had anyone working for my old boss acted in the fashion dscribed here, he would have beaten us up himself when he found out.
If you've had proper training, it is perfectly possible to subdue a person with a minimum of violence and very little pain to them; it is also often desirable to use no violence at all. It not only spares them discomfort - it makes the onlookers happier and much more inclined to turn to you if they're in trouble. How many of the students who saw this incident will be willing to call the cops in the future?
THN at 168 - thank you, I didn't have that one.
Is there something wrong with me for reading 166 as "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome past"?
An acquaintance whose blog I read is looking for a vanity publisher - fortunately, she looked on the web and found that this is not the way to get published by a publisher... She also has all these ideas of why she isn't published; I'm going with the fact that she can't write, myself.
It seems, in a way, easier to be an academic writer: you find a publisher, you find a grant that will pay for publishing your book, you often sign away your copyright and you never expect to make anything on that book - it's just there to help you to a better-paying job anyway. But (whistfully) it would be nice to write books that anyone reads...
ajay: like the nice hymn that starts "blessed is the man whose bowels move and melt with passion for the poor.."
ajay @ 53 - well, I've tried to tell Americans that myself but it doesn't sound good coming from a European.
ajay, I think an associate degree is what you get after a two-year course at a community college - but then I'm not American so I could be wrong.
He reminds me of a review of Buffy I read somewhere, which included the complaint that she was too itty-bitty a girl to kick the ass of adult men. My reaction was mostly along the lines of 'what part of "superhero" is untelligible to you?' but I am now struck by the horrifying thought that there may be two people like Castagna out there. Or maybe he just writes under different noms-de-plume?
My son has a kidney problem. I WANT my frickin STEM CELL RESEARCH.
If it's any comfort, stem cell research is going on elsewhere - Sweden has quite a good record on the subject. Even the US withdrawing their (admittedly considerable) funding does not mean nothing gets done.
| Year | Number of comments posted |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2006 | 30 |
Total: 40 comments. View all these comments on a single page.
The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by lalouve:
Show all comments by lalouve.