Comments on: FRIDAY QUICKIES

By: Life Tenant

Life Tenant — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:14:12 +0000

I agree Paglia is an unreliable judge, but she’s an entertaining provocateur, and her tips for what makes a good blog (as reported by Dave P.) are right on (if a bit obvious), especially in today’s polemicized and image-saturated agora. Though I just wish I had the time & talent to follow her recommendations.

By: Dave Pollard

Dave Pollard — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 04:58:40 +0000

Mike: Thanks — I’ve been scouring the listings for both my US and Canadian satellite dishes for this program in vain.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 18:14:46 +0000

If you like Pilger his 'Breaking The Silence' documentary has apparently been released on the net. It's realmedia, about 13 megs, and almost an hour long (the video has been compressed considerably). It's downloadable, I got mine from here:http://www.weholdthesetruths.org/public/pilger_breaking_the_silence.ram

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:12:28 +0000

I don’t think Pilger has ever claimed to be “even-handed.” Quite the contrary, I think he acknowledges that he has a definite agenda, based heavily on his reaction to what he sees in the world. While his strong, unreserved opinion of the modern world might make him an arrogent extremist, it doesn’t make him wrong.

By: Raging Bee

Raging Bee — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:54:32 +0000

Y’mean like this?Let’s see if it takes. The last time I tried to change my handle, I got some wierd and inconsistent results.And what’s this about going BACK to calling myself PonyTailed Writer? I don’t remember ever doing that. Have you been intercepting my email porn? :-)The PonyTailed Writer Formerly Known as Dave

By: Dave Pollard

Dave Pollard — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:45:56 +0000

Hey Dave: I respect your opinions. I would appreciate it though if you’d go back to signing your posts ‘PonyTailed Writer’, since there are too many ‘Daves’ out there and people have sometimes assumed that your posts come from me.

By: Raging Bee

Raging Bee — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:02:52 +0000

Paglia…Paglia…Isn’t she the professed lesbian who bashes gay men for their “unnatural” behavior? That would be in keeping with the utter hypocricy of her latest ramblings, in which she bashes celebrity-addiction and pop culture, then judges nearly all of the Democratic candidates for the highest office in the USA on their physical attributes.She has some interesting things to say, many of them spot-on, but she has a major credibility problem, especially when she calls pro football her “pagan ritual,” or calls herself a “libertarian,” then boasts of voting for Nader.She’s just like Rush: making controversial statements solely to get public attention and ratings. What a joke!

By: Raging Bee

Raging Bee — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:57:36 +0000

“Today’s slogan, ‘war on terrorism’, also reverses meaning. The war is terrorism.”That sounds like the same sort of “pseudo-information” and “orwellian” twists of language that Pilger pretends to condemn. Not to mention the old extremist practice of dodging tough moral choices, and pretending to be evenhanded, by arbitrarily calling both sides by the same epithet.Thank you for quoting that passage and illustrating Pilger’s massive credibility problem.