Yesterday I accepted the challenge issued by the so-called warbloggers to engage in an ongoing debate about war in Iraq; to put forth arguments without recourse to personal attacks. I believe that I accomplished this, writing up both legal and strategic reasons against war in Iraq and not once engaging in character assassination. My regular readers […]
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The debate continues?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Continuing the discussion I started in yesterday’s posts (here, here, and here) in response to postings by Eric Olsen, Martin Devon, and indirectly by Glenn Reynolds, Jonathon Delacour answered my plea for clarification about Eric’s statements regarding Japan in what promises to be an excellent multi-part posting. In addition, Alan Cooke also responded with a succinct take of the assertions […]
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Intensity
I had asked Jonathon to respond on a warblogger quote about Japan before I read his posting today, I am very intense. In the posting, an extraordinary exposition of self, Jonathon writes about an online relationship he once had: We drove each other crazy. Minor issues of emphasis or tone in an e-mail led to massive misunderstandings and […]
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The argument in defense
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oddly enough, two separate threads related to two totally different subjects and both leading to this posting. As stated earlier, B!x posted a reference to the Weblogging Consortium idea to Blogroots. At this time, I rather wish this hadn’t happened because the idea was just something I was throwing out to see what kind of […]
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The Line-of-Sight Developer
I heard the term “Line-of-Sight” in reference to certain breeds of dogs, such as the Afghan. It seems that these dogs have this instinctive urge to run towards the horizon, and if they get loose, they’ll keep running towards the horizon at full speed until their owners catch them (fat chance) or until they run […]