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| 2010-01-23 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 I recall Eric Hoffer covered these cases very well. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-01-23 11:04 |
| #3 The article brings up a question, but in the usual squirrelly big-think journalist fashion, refuses to actually make a judgment. That question is - has Johnson gone bonkers, or was he always an asshole, and 9/11 just scared him straight for longer than some of the other reformed assholes. There's a good argument to be made that he's just reverting to norms. He doesn't have the medical issues and journalistic-political history which makes it fairly obvious what happened to his fellow Horseman, Andrew Sullivan. Nobody ever heard of Charles Johnson before the blogsphere blew up, and those that had were a bunch of tea-toking jazz retreads. I have a natural bias against artists and those with an artistic temperment. I don't think it's an accident that so many successful fascists were failed artists. Johnson's made his LGF Yenan a barbed-wire gulag. That itself is damnation enough. The rest is noise. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-01-23 09:31 |
| #2 It seems borderline ridiculous that the political character of an extremist Belgian party, which in the last parliamentary election captured just 17 seats out of 150 in the Chamber of Representatives Just 17 seats? Thats a large number for a third party. Otherwise it appears perfectly legal to advocate separating Flemish and French in Belgium, but not christian and muslim. Go figure. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-01-23 07:51 |
| #1 I always assumed that Green Footballs was a 1960s-'70s reference to Dexedrine. aka "greenies", they were briefly popular among pro football players. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-01-23 07:11 |