In Defense of Hitchens

Canon Magazine ^ | 12/2002 | Mark Grueter

[Cacique]

I frankly don't care who he is. And even if he were who he claimed to be. I couldn't care less. Sports is one area I find a total waste of time. Watching sports is like watching other people have sex. It's more fun and beneficial to engage in it yourself.

The only sport that counts in the end is war and those who engage in it in defence of our civilization are trhe true heroes.

Celebreties don't impress me that much. I know my fair share of them and they breathe and fart like the rest of us. A lot of them can be real assholes like the rest of the population and have the same distribution in IQ's as the rest of the population. That is to say, that half of them have IQ's lower than 100.

[Face Man II]

Thank you. It was quite an honor. There were many times in my career where I felt like I was failure.

[general_re]

And even if he were who he claimed to be. I couldn't care less.

Pretty much. Dunno why the mods are just playing with him now, instead of banning him again for trying to sneak back on, but he/she/they apparently have something else in mind for the moment. Whatever the situation with his real identity may be, I'll stand firm on one thing - "Danny Ainge"/Face Man/Face Man II are all one and the same. Period, end of story.

I'm outta here...

[Cacique]

Time for me to split as well. These Vampire hours are having an effect. the sun will rise soon. Need to spend the day in a darkened room with the window shades down and fast asleep. I was a normal human being before I got on FR.

[Face Man II]

Some of you people need to be locked up in an institution. Everyone who says something "different" is somehow attempting to subvert the site and Bush. On the contrary, I'm only trying to add to the debate. I fully support regime change, even though Bush doesn't.

[hotpotato]

By the way, they didn't retire your jersey (of course, you probably know that).

Ainge Becomes First Cougar To Have His Jersey Retired

[hotpotato]

[hotpotato]

They retired my jersey and number! How can they separate the two?

BYU NewsNet

"Fans also showed up, Saturday, to see BYU great Danny Ainge have his number retired. His jersey will hang in the rafters of the Marriott Center, but his number can still theoretically be worn by another player."

[hotpotato]

I came on here looking for a serious debate, and I'm really disappointed with what I've found. Are we going to talk about how disarmament can possibly be considered a "regime change" or arent' we?

One of the reasons I came here, too. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Don't you think, however, that informing the forum of your celebrity status and connections sort of got in your way?

[MEG33]

I love reading about the left questioning itself. I probably read Hitchens goodbye letter to the Nation through Sullivan. Katrina Vander HOO gives me a rash. Hitchens is still a socialist but I love to read him and he's managed to comb his hair lately. Thanks for posting the article.

[jwalsh07]

If you wanted serious debate absent the celebrity bs, you would have come here anonymously whtehr or not you once played third base for the Blue Jays.

Your notion that privately held property such as FR can be guilty of censorship is ridiculous.

And finally, the idea that you, presumably a "radical", support regime change while Bush doesn't is laughable.

[Stultis]

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[VeritatisSplendor]

I think you "misunderestimate" Bush. He is not very glib, but he is smart. I know you left MLB before he got involved, but you must have followed it enough to be aware that when he ran the Rangers he was generally considered one of the shrewdest of the owners (many said the '94 season would have been saved if he'd still been around instead of having left for Austin).

That doesn't mean he intellectually dominates Cheny, Rumsfeld, etc. -- a good manager knows to not be afraid of hiring people who may be smarter than he is. But he's definitely on top of things, and no dummy.

Bush is indeed serious about regime change, he has always followed through on his commitments. He doesn't mind waiting a couple more weeks because the weather is most favorable for action during a new moon, and he let the one at the beginning of March pass because Turkey's vote just barely failed and he was deceived about what would be in Blix's 3/7 report (Blix hid the smoking gun and pushed the debate in the opposite direction than he'd given the impression he would).

Note to some others on this thread -- would you losers stop giving FMII a hard time? It is obvious that he quit the old screen name because it was a distraction from what he wanted to discuss, and that nobody is faking anything.

[Allan]

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[general_re]

Some of you people need to be locked up in an institution. Everyone who says something "different" is somehow attempting to subvert the site and Bush.

Who said any such thing on this thread? Whoops, those were the sorts of comments you got the other night as Face Man I. Which you didn't read because you are, of course, a completely different person. Right.

Sheesh, dude - give it up already.