...MICHAEL VICK has by his own admission proven to be just the foul waste of protoplasm the conventional wisdom had him. Killing the dogs? Repulsive. Even though there's a presumption against incarceration for a first-time offender, Kelso is hoping Vick does indeed have to serve a custodial sentence.
The conventional wisdom is right now and then. It's wrong about Bonds. It's wrong about plenty of other crap, too. It was surely wrong that Kirby Puckett belongs in Cooperstown.
As for Vick, no prison rape jokes. No invective. The punishment should fit the crime. Vick's a cretin (guess that's kind of invective). Just hoping the Falcons can find another alternative to keep Dunn healthy.
--Good luck from Forego, a poor skin-head without a dollar.
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glad you turned around on this, forego.
Forego has his limits. It's just that PEACE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND STRONG ECONOMY are a little higher up on the ladder for him than "the environment" or "animal rights."
Those aren't UNIMPORTANT ISSUES, but for now they are safe Hollywood issues and the top three are really where the rubber meets the road.
forego,
i agree with you that 'animal rights' tends to be a bizarrely overblown issue (with the peta wack-jobs, bob barker, bono, etc.) and surely fits into the 'hollywood cause' category (on a side note, i was suprised to see bill maher, self-proclaimed cynic that he is, getting all goofy-eyed over the vick story).
however, i put the environment right up there with social justice and freedom. in terms of pure economics, as our natural resources become more and more scarce or too toxic to process, the "haves" will begin to hoard more and more of them from the "have nots." i think this is already the case with our water resources, particularly in third-world countries (and california and nevada).
as climates change, the seas may rise as a result of the melting polar ice cap (as may well happen in new york city, where the subways were totally incapacitated due the the last storm, and the tornado in brooklyn), the rich will be able to relocate to safer areas as the poor, as in new orleans, will be left to suffer and die. and, one might argue, that katerina may have been the warning bell for the predicted increases in storm activity that will arise because of global climate change.
call me brain-washed, call me a sucker for doomsday scenarios, but i think it's definitely top (or near-top) of my list.
sometimes it pays to get brand-name recognition to a cause. i remember when the municipal arts society wanted to save grand central terminal. the people at municipal arts were, in the big picture, nobodies. but when they brought jackie onassis aboard, her name recognition brought about the landmarking the terminal and the ultimate grand restoration of that amazing structure. i know this point has little to do with global climate change, but it does point to the power "big names" can bring to issues. sometimes that can be misued. but in the case of global climate change, we have to look past the cheryl crowe's of the world and, yes, look at science and history.
i could go on ... but i think you get my drift.
A.
I've always said you are the most intelligent person I've ever met, so I can't really disagree with any of your logic. I'll just leave you with one thought I commetend on FAIRLANE's "No more heroes" post.
Social change in the US will come when CLASS in the Marx/Engels/Marcuse/LateCareerMalcolmX is not taboo. Fairlane posits that when the African-Americans, poor Whites and immigrants get together on class issues, change is possible.
My response was that it's important for White Guys to take Michael Vick, Barry Bonds, with a grain of salt, because the MSM has a vested interest in not seeing such a union. So long as the MSM can villify Bonds and Vick, poor white can say confidently "look what niggers do when they have little money." Thus distracting them from a larger purpose.
We progressives, leftist, skeptics, principled monetary neutralists, just have to agree that WE HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS ON THE RIGHT, TOO. Need much more evidence than Waco and the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge? And those monstosities were perpetrated by a fairly good AG, Janet Reno.
Any chance I can consider at least one person to turn LAW & ORDER and the CSI series off? That we would be a start.
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