- bangs head against wall -
I swear, we're working on restoring sanity, as soon as we can find the backup tapes.
Actually, Kevin's new blog does have a blogroll. It's just waaaaay at the bottom of the page, instead of being conveniently located on the sidebar. It's also in a dropdown list, which I personally consider to be suboptimal in this context. But it is there, and it does appear to have the same blogs as before.
It's also worth mentioning that the politically correct saints people might prefer weren't actually going there and getting their hands dirty.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here, but if you read the story, you might have noticed that early on Gary Gardner contacted the NAACP, LULAC, and the ACLU. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund provided a pro bono attorney, Jeff Blackburn, who spent 2000 hours and $39,000 of his own money working to get them released. Finally, the story was first broken by the venerable Texas lefty rag, the Texas Observer, back in 2000, where it was eventually picked up by Bob Herbert in the New York Times.
Gary Gardner was a hero, no question about it. But he wasn't alone. Check your facts before you draw any sweeping conclusions next time.
Hmm...Patrick says Hello as the Talking Dog says Goodbye. Coincidence? You decide.
Seriously, welcome back. We missed you.
"Poor John Mellencamp; he was dissed by Lileks not that long ago for heartland-bashing, and now he gets used as a stand-in for heartland patriotism. He doesn't really make a very good representative of Heartlandism."
I must have missed that. How in the world could anyone claim that Mellencamp is a "heatland-basher"? The entire "Scarecrow" album is a paean to the heartland. So's "Lonesome Jubilee" for that matter. Someone's confused here.
"There's more irony in that "Ain't that America for you and me" than gets noticed, I think."
Agreed. Just 'cause you love something doesn't mean you can't recognize its limitations and contradictions.
Apparently, Stormin' Norman Schwartzkopf is also against an invasion of Iraq at this time. See this item on MaxSpeak.
I'll second that recommendation. It's a great and informative read. Glad to see it's online now.
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