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2003-09-04 Home Front

Thinking About Iraq in the Minnesota Wilderness

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-09-04 11:41|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let PETA know about their "fishin' and thinkin' trip". That'll bring the horrors of war and dictatorship to their doorstep. What an inflated piece of crap

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-4 11:48:23 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:48:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 That 70's "I'm okay, you're okay" crap - my old roomate in college used to say to potential dates who brought it up - "I'm okay, you're f*#ked!". And what group of real men would go on a fishing trip without beer?

Posted by Mike S 2003-9-4 11:55:59 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:55:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't forget the mosquito-, loon-, and fish-filled marsh that Sammy drained so that he could punish and kill the Marsh Arabs...

Posted by seafarious 2003-9-4 12:06:57 PM|| 2003-9-4 12:06:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 We spend almost as much time looking inward as we do sitting in the national bathroom, exploring our sexuality.

Fred, that is one of the all-time great lines.

As for the article---pheww---I detect the lingering stench of the 1960s. Did I miss it, or was there an encounter with a passing Ojibwa shaman who told them the secret of life?

The problem with looking inward and figuring out how you feel is that not everybody feels like you do or operates by your principles. You may value peace above all else, but halfway across the world there's a man who does not value earthly peace as much as eternal glory. You're not going to come to an accommodation with that guy.

I know most of the rest of you learned that sort of thing where I did, in junior high, but apparently some people don't.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-9-4 12:52:43 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-9-4 12:52:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Visualize getting a job, pal...

Posted by mojo 2003-9-4 1:31:49 PM|| 2003-9-4 1:31:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 You know, I'm almost positive that this little think-piece is a rip-off ("homage") of a Hemmingway short story I had to read for some class or another. Except Hemmingway was a lot more subtle about comparing his war with fishing in Minnesota lake country.

Posted by Mitch H. 2003-9-4 3:26:11 PM|| 2003-9-4 3:26:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Wonder what the writer would be thinking and contrasting with if he was in the wilderness with an erupting volcano. Hang around the woods for a while with choking, raining volcanic ash and see if you feel good. Nature is not "feel good" benevolant to all. The world is not loons, baby ducks, and plopping fish all living in perfect harmony getting a coke.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-4 3:43:42 PM|| 2003-9-4 3:43:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 For that matter, if they were doing the very same thing -- sitting around a lake fishing and passing gas -- 30 miles north of the northern end of your route in late January, things wouldn't be quite so pleasant...

Jack London, call your agent.

Posted by Fred 2003-9-4 5:13:51 PM|| 2003-9-4 5:13:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder how the fish were biting the day that Todd Bemer and his buddies got told over their cell-phones that this hi-jack wasn't the Cubans taking the plane to Havana.

Maybe his friend Chris, a neurologist at the University of Minnesota, called and said that important things were going on the world.

The a black crow flapped and cawed. Mosquitoes buzzed. He decided to catch some more fish because he was a new American as far removed from Nathan Hale, Thomas Paine and any other patriot who gave a shit.

His friend Rick, a Rochester lawyer, fired back. "Bob, Nicholodean isn't covering the attack. You can still watch Sponge Bob."

From a lake in New France, MN.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-4 8:34:09 PM|| 2003-9-4 8:34:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds like they ran outta beer...

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-4 11:30:11 PM|| 2003-9-4 11:30:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 OK--who posted some "dude's" Journalism 101 paper from U of Minn on here to be mean?

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-9-4 11:38:40 PM|| 2003-9-4 11:38:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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