"Barbara O’Brien’s wide-ranging account of Zen history is conveyed with a master storyteller’s ability to keep the forest from getting lost in a myriad of trees. Wearing her scholarship lightly, she blends just the right amount of skepticism about her hagiographic sources with a deep appreciation for the Dharma." — Barry Magid, author of
Nothing Is Hidden and
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness Order here!
Digby of course is right. What you notice now is every weasel crawling out saying they really never liked little georgie. Sen Warner was just on Timmeh saying that we don’t need an apology or admission from Bush and we don’t need to look too close at how we got into this mess but a plan forward. As Glenn Green wald has been saying lately , every where you turn the powers that be do not want too close an examination of anything because it would reveal that they were “wrong and went along”: when it came to the war and all foreign policy, to domestic policy, to theocracy, to borrow and spend economics ,to deregulation of everything but women and their behavior, to privatization read enrich my buddies, to the whole dirty agenda ridden package. They were wrong and went along. They do not want it pointed out now they they were for Georgie before they were against him and that they enabled him evry step of the way. It is the vogue now to say that George won’t listen and he can only be told when he is ready to listen and all 300 million of us need to tiptoe around for 2 more years so as not to upset the drunk with news he doesn’t want to hear. That is just an excuse for not examining where the rest of the fault is: we have a system of government that is barely working any longer and we have come close to the abyss and we are still skirting the edge.
To Digby and to k: A..A…A….MEN.
Can somebody explain the glitch that prevents me from reading Digby? Every time I go to that site, the text is so far over to the right that it’s unreadable and there’s no bar at the bottom to move it over.
I believe that going after the Bush admin on war-profiteering, corruption, and waste is a MUCH better approach that going after them for manipulating intelligence.
This is an issue that EVERYONE can get behind – even most supporters of the war who actually wanted to “do it right” will find a lot of this to be an utter betrayal of what they thought they were supporting.
Canadian — I can’t help you with Digby’s blog. It looks OK to me. Sometimes what looks OK on one monitor is scrambled on another; I don’t know why.
Canadian – try different a different browser. You can, for example download FireFox for free.
It could be browser settings (you can dig into the browser itself and fiddle with these – sometimes there is a “reset to default” option which takes you back to the “factory” settings). Your browser installation could be corrupted (can you re-install it?).
If you go to some other computer (a public library for example), you should see that Digby’s site works OK (unless the other computer is also screwed up in some way).
Canadian – not to pry into your political inclination.. if Digby is too far to the right, maybe you are to liberal?
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1203-25.htm
A commentor at Digby mentioned this.
Moonbat: Thanks! Firefox did the trick!
Doug: Good joke. Actually, Liberals (notice the capital L) in Canada are members of the Liberal Party, which just elected a new leader, Stéphane Dion, yesterday. Dion would be considered a flaming Communist in many parts of the States, though he`s pretty middle of the road here in Canada. Since I am left of the Liberals, I vote N.D.P.–New Democratic Party.
I thought the Digby post was great. In particular, the following:
If they can use “acid, amnesty and abortion” against the Democrats for thirty years, the Democrats can use “corruption, cronyism and incompetence” against them. Every time they talk about Democrats “taxing and spending” the Democrats should counter with “taxing and stealing.”
You’ve always got to have a quick, handy response to righties and the one above is a real zinger.
As a result of unfolding reality I believe conservative blogs will:
1. Blame, condemn, and ostracize everything that’s “not conservative enough†while circling the drain of echo chamber nuttiness. (most wingnut and fundie sites)
2. Be forced to liberalize their philosophies, membership and rituals in order to encourage new ideas and maintain intellectual credibility. (Balloon Juice, Andrew Sullivan..)
3. Rev up the blame machine if a terrorist attack does indeed strike America, or if an Iraq pullout causes even worse catastrophe in the next few years.
The only way they can win is #3 (unless that possibility is carefully planned for).