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To: vanderleun
Bears repeating.
Anyone who knows a scintilla of a jot about human nature knows that alternate, sustainable energy solutions will come to pass on the day that the last gallon of gasoline on the planet is burned and not one second before.
2 posted on
12/31/2005 2:26:26 PM PST by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: vanderleun
Did you write this? You need an editor.
4 posted on
12/31/2005 2:36:47 PM PST by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: vanderleun
6 posted on
12/31/2005 2:40:49 PM PST by
jra
To: vanderleun
7 posted on
12/31/2005 2:41:58 PM PST by
Mamzelle
To: vanderleun
Here is one compromise I would agree to. Okay, a compromise. We'll shoot Michael Savage on the air in mid-mental meltdown if you'll garrote Al Franken in mid-flatulation at the same time. Okay? That is right on.
8 posted on
12/31/2005 2:47:46 PM PST by
oldtimer2
(Liberal: a power worshipper without power....George Orwell)
To: vanderleun
Please explain why you are so taken with the work of William Cummings.
9 posted on
12/31/2005 2:50:55 PM PST by
Capriole
(I don't have any problems that can't be solved by more chocolate or more ammunition.)
To: vanderleun
I take the time and the trouble to see a lot of what passes for new art and it is almost invariably depressing and disgusting and forgettable in varying degrees. In the last year, I have seen only one show of one artist (out of dozens of visits to exhibitions) in which beauty and feeling and form and the sublime triumph.
I've seen plenty of art that does NOT convey a sense of cheap cynicism or subversion or nihilism or infantile contrarianism. It really is out there. But does it catch the attention of New York's effete navel gazers? No, but so what? Why should it? There's an artist out there in America's free-market for every buyer.
10 posted on
12/31/2005 2:51:09 PM PST by
macamadamia
(The great dangerous non-sequitur du jour: oil-independence will stop terrorism.)
To: vanderleun
A man's garden should never be bigger than a single day's weeding.
11 posted on
12/31/2005 2:55:28 PM PST by
Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: vanderleun
If you have nothing to say, the worst thing you can do is take 4,000 words to do it.
This screed may have legs on DU, but it is oddly out of place where thinking people congregate.
13 posted on
12/31/2005 2:59:44 PM PST by
IronJack
To: vanderleun
I enjoy being shallow one day a year.
"Did you ever have to make up your mind
Pick up on one and leave the other behind?
It's not often easy and not often kind.
Did you ever have to make up your mind?"
-- The Loving Spoonful
I really liked those lyrics when all I had to do was identify with the singer over his quandary over which of two people to date.
/end shallow commentary
14 posted on
12/31/2005 3:01:12 PM PST by
GretchenM
(God made you. He will also take you out. Better to go on His terms, that is, through Jesus.)
To: vanderleun
All right! Lay down a barage and get everybody.
No such thing as collateral damage when everybody is the target.
15 posted on
12/31/2005 3:02:21 PM PST by
tjg
To: vanderleun
"Call it what you will. The idea is that I can't keep as a deep dark secret something so important and basic to my way of thinking from people I consider my friends."
From the liberal coming out blog referenced here. I know what she's talking about but I have it even worse. I call it "can keep my mouth shut" syndrome. I have the the problem both among people I know in my nearly hundred percent blue neighborhood and on the Internet. Understanding the subversive and murderous nature of our enemy, I tried to keep my mouth shut on a number of subjects for longtime. however, failing to do so, I have finally given up trying.
16 posted on
12/31/2005 3:08:26 PM PST by
strategofr
(Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
I thought that tooting one's own horn belonged in the BLOGGERS section - this stuff sure AIN'T news...
19 posted on
12/31/2005 3:15:20 PM PST by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
To: vanderleun
23 posted on
12/31/2005 9:00:05 PM PST by
Auntie Mame
("If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." --Grandma)
To: vanderleun
Excellent column!
The only part I disagree with is the simplistic take on "gay marriage", since "gay marriage" simply cannot exist any more than "bright darkness" can exist. But other than getting sucked into feeling it necessary to even comment about a such a red-herring impossibility, I thoroughly enjoyed this rant.
To: vanderleun
Look forward to reading this.
To: vanderleun
Trolls, fools, sycophants, psychopaths, ignoramuses, and those who in any other era would be institutionalized with their drool cups emptied five times a day are by and larger those who show up in online forums. Well, he could at least use my name.
30 posted on
01/01/2006 4:46:47 AM PST by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: vanderleun
Good thinking points in the mix.
Thanks
32 posted on
01/01/2006 5:19:29 AM PST by
investigateworld
(Abortion stops a beating heart)
To: vanderleun
The dog chewed up my glasses yesterday and the old pair I am wearing don't quite do the job, so I can't read much of what you said but I did look at the pictures. William Cummings looks OK but decidedly juvenile, like work that a really talented 6 year old brings home from school. The color looks quite garish and I don't think I would like to look at it every day in my home but if you like it, there is something out there for everyone.
33 posted on
01/01/2006 5:22:24 AM PST by
Ditter
To: vanderleun
He;s right about some of his points. Other warrant a barf alert.
43 posted on
01/02/2006 2:06:09 AM PST by
balch3
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