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2004-07-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Dar 2004-07-16 1:13:12 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Please bring him to New York.

Posted by Lil Dhimmi 2004-07-16 1:22:24 PM|| 2004-07-16 1:22:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Cold War hero" is a bit much. Fischer acted like such a jerk in '72 that people started to root for Spassky.

Posted by PBMcL 2004-07-16 1:27:15 PM|| 2004-07-16 1:27:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 But who could ever forget the excitment when Bobby played 6...0-0.

Posted by Lucky 2004-07-16 1:34:05 PM|| 2004-07-16 1:34:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fischer is the living walking talking proof of the adage that you can be smart as hell and still act a fool.

Posted by .com 2004-07-16 1:38:02 PM|| 2004-07-16 1:38:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 What a moron. He sure could play some chess, though. They should lock him up in a cell with one of those super unbeatable chess computers (like the one that kept beating Kasparov), name it Hyman or George B. or something, and force him (by withholding snacks) to keep playing it over and over. Until he beats his own brains in.

Posted by Meester Feester 2004-07-16 1:52:28 PM|| 2004-07-16 1:52:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Reuben Fine, who was one of the strongest American chess players ever and probably the dominant one in the late 1940s, was also a trained psychologist. He opined many years ago that Fischer had a severe mental illness and anyone familiar with his career usually comes to the same conclusion.

As hateful as the rhetoric that comes out of his mouth is, my main wish is that he would get help.

If only Michael Moore had the same excuse...

Posted by dreadnought 2004-07-16 2:57:37 PM|| 2004-07-16 2:57:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 IIRC, under Jewish law if his mother is Jewish, so is he.

Posted by Spot 2004-07-16 3:18:00 PM|| 2004-07-16 3:18:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 ...and he seemed so nice in the movie.

Posted by Jaman 2004-07-16 3:47:22 PM|| 2004-07-16 3:47:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 This is great. I will finally, after 12 long years, be able to feel safe to sleep at night knowing he's off the streets.

Posted by Jaman 2004-07-16 3:58:11 PM|| 2004-07-16 3:58:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "IIRC, under Jewish law if his mother is Jewish, so is he."

Unless he has converted to another religion, or she did before he was born -- you don't get to remain one of the Chosen then, despite the opinion of the former Jews in my mother-in-law's evangelical church. But, as Liberalhawk wrote previously, otherwise you are just a sinning Jew.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-07-17 12:09:47 AM|| 2004-07-17 12:09:47 AM|| Front Page Top

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