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Saturday, May 22, 2004

Lightning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Win Game 7...on to the Stanley Cup Finals against Calgary! More thoughts on all this later, too busy celebrating right now.

And where's my buddy Ed?
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Friday, May 21, 2004

Mickey Kaus is an amoral SOB. 

In today's Kausfiles, Kerry obsessive Mickey Kaus weighs in with these words on the torture at Abu Ghraib:
Byron York finally points out that, according to Seymour Hersh (and contrary to the convenient goo-goo win-win CW on interrogation techniques) Rumsfeld's secret torture plan worked--it produced good intelligence. That doesn't mean it was a) moral or b) smart--in the medium term it may also cause us to lose the war in Iraq (and we might have beaten back the insurgent attacks without the extra intelligence). In the long run it may create much, much more terrorism than even a successful Iraq war will prevent. But it's not nuthin'.(emphasis added)
Couldn't you say this about Mengele as well? I know the right gets it collective panties in a bunch over any comparison to the Nazi regime, but isn't the moral calculus the same? After all, Mengele and the Nazis did add some useful information to the sum total of medical research, which was "not nuthin'", but at a prohibitively abhorrent price. Yeah, Kaus uses the "doesn't mean it was moral" language, but why bring up the fact the information gleaned from the torture was "not nuthin'," unless he's trying to show there was some justification for it? Are we supposed to be happy that there was some net benefit from it? Is this how low the warbloggers have sunk to find silver linings?
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Thursday, May 20, 2004

What a wack job. 

This moron likens this past Monday, when gays were allowed to marry in Massachusetts, to September 11. Little does he realize that a theocon like himself has more in common with those who perpetrated the attacks on 9/11 than those who were the victims. John Walker Lindh was called an "American Taliban". People like this guy are the American Taliban.
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Sins of the son? 

So, if good people really beget good people, then what does this say about cat torturer-turned-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist?
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