Worst possible timing considering I have my Doctor Who chapter due the same day, but CFP for Sherlock and I have an idea about queerness and reception Aaaaargh.
I've been a bit off sushi since the food poisoning incident, but Do Want: sushi and opera.
Ido Sushi is a good place. For a while, Sunday evenings had Dan Daly, who used to play at Rose's Turn on Sunday happy hours, and it was fun; I believe Bronwyn Rucker is still doing her Shakespeare Soirees on Monday nights (songs, monologues, etc., with Shakespearean themes). If you want to go one evening, give me a call.
Two days ago, I would have agreed with every point on your "Words Matter" post. Today, I am convinced not only that the right wing's winding up of deniable nutjobs to go out and kill left-wing figures is deliberate, but that it's not going to stop until the left ceases wringing its hands and calling for tolerance each time something happens to one of their own.
And, quite honestly, why should they? After all, it works so well, and there's no equivalent action from the other side to make them want a cease-fire. So, let someone start painting crosshairs on Beck, on Hannity, on Palin, on Joyce "If ballots don't work, bullets will" Kaufman. When it's no longer primarily Democrats being mailed pipe bombs and envelopes of white powder, and "lone crazies" are equally likely to take out right-wing figures, then maybe we'll actually get buy-in on a return to the Fairness Doctrine and some mutual restraint in political speech on the air.
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Date: 2011-01-09 06:12 pm (UTC)Why do I think that? Because this is not the first time, nor even the third time, that this has happened and the hatemongers were back to spewing bile the next day. Because this time, they didn't even wait until the next day: within hours of the incident, before people were certain Gifford was still alive, Tucson's Tea Party said straight out that they're not going to change a thing.
And, quite honestly, why should they? After all, it works so well, and there's no equivalent action from the other side to make them want a cease-fire. So, let someone start painting crosshairs on Beck, on Hannity, on Palin, on Joyce "If ballots don't work, bullets will" Kaufman. When it's no longer primarily Democrats being mailed pipe bombs and envelopes of white powder, and "lone crazies" are equally likely to take out right-wing figures, then maybe we'll actually get buy-in on a return to the Fairness Doctrine and some mutual restraint in political speech on the air.
Have you seen this?
Date: 2011-01-09 09:21 pm (UTC)http://roto-rouda.blogspot.com/2011/01/speaking-of-target-practice.html
Re: Have you seen this?
Date: 2011-01-09 11:25 pm (UTC)Re: Have you seen this?
Date: 2011-01-09 11:28 pm (UTC)