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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been ignoring the whole ‘humiliation’ thing going on between Dave and Glenn Reynolds and Nick Denton. To me, it resembled the typical warblogger BS, and I’ve listened to this broken record one too many times. What changed my opinion was when Doc joined the fray with a gentle admonishment to the warbies. What caught my attention […]