Comments on: Berlin Wall-Breach + 20 Years http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/ Conservatism for punks. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:39:15 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Markley http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/comment-page-1/#comment-60928 John Markley Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:25:38 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/#comment-60928 JustWondering, Should every Muslim who gets elected to public office be asked if he maybe has some kind of connection to Islamist terrorist organizations, too? JustWondering,

Should every Muslim who gets elected to public office be asked if he maybe has some kind of connection to Islamist terrorist organizations, too?

]]> By: Gerard http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/comment-page-1/#comment-59992 Gerard Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:21:52 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/#comment-59992 Mais oui! Don't you know that New York City is the locus of the resurgent white power movement? <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/10/grand_ol_pagan.php" rel="nofollow"> Grand Ol' Pagan </a> <i>After talking with several members of the local theods and looking at what Halloran and others have written, the Germanic neo-heathenism of New Normandy appears to be an inclusive, family-friendly pursuit. Local members enjoy researching history, dressing up, and trying as much as possible to live within the customs and beliefs that one might find in 12th century pagan Denmark while actually living and working in 21st century New York.</i> Mais oui!

Don’t you know that New York City is the locus of the resurgent white power movement?

Grand Ol’ Pagan

After talking with several members of the local theods and looking at what Halloran and others have written, the Germanic neo-heathenism of New Normandy appears to be an inclusive, family-friendly pursuit. Local members enjoy researching history, dressing up, and trying as much as possible to live within the customs and beliefs that one might find in 12th century pagan Denmark while actually living and working in 21st century New York.

]]> By: JustWondering http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/comment-page-1/#comment-59987 JustWondering Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:17:26 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/#comment-59987 I hate to bring up something that might spoil the party, but has anybody asked this Odin-worshipper if he maybe has some kind of connection to the Odin-worshipping white supremacist movement that has been on the rise lately? I hate to bring up something that might spoil the party, but has anybody asked this Odin-worshipper if he maybe has some kind of connection to the Odin-worshipping white supremacist movement that has been on the rise lately?

]]> By: Gerard http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/comment-page-1/#comment-59976 Gerard Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:43:09 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/#comment-59976 <i>Even superficial pop-philosopher Slavoj Zizek can’t quite bring himself to say that if Communism was bad maybe capitalism is good, and the Times gives him space today to mope about how there still ought to be some third way, socialism with a human face.</i> Be grateful there wasn't an audio clip accompanying his op-ed. As I was listening to his commentary track on <b>Children Of Men</b> I felt like I needed some sort of spit guard as a protective covering. Even superficial pop-philosopher Slavoj Zizek can’t quite bring himself to say that if Communism was bad maybe capitalism is good, and the Times gives him space today to mope about how there still ought to be some third way, socialism with a human face.

Be grateful there wasn’t an audio clip accompanying his op-ed. As I was listening to his commentary track on Children Of Men I felt like I needed some sort of spit guard as a protective covering.

]]> By: Gerard http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/comment-page-1/#comment-59974 Gerard Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:25:52 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-breach-20-years/#comment-59974 I'm most likely going to attend that YR meeting, despite the fact that I'm probably not going to re-enroll in the Republican Party when I move to Staten Island. Anyway, a bit off-topic, but I stumbled upon this through a link on Jack Shafer's Twitter: <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=constant_comment" rel="nofollow"> How Kathleen Parker, blah, blah, blah... </a> Now, I'm not one to reflexively deride the venue writers choose to appear in, especially if they're compensated for their work, and The American Prospect is probably one of the more intellectually compelling, reasonable journals of the left. That being said, isn't it a bit odd that someone who's a contributing editor at an ostensibly libertarian magazine would seek out a bully pulpit that was founded, and is edited, by Robert Kuttner, a doctrinaire social democrat and the foremost proponent of contemporary industrial policy? I’m most likely going to attend that YR meeting, despite the fact that I’m probably not going to re-enroll in the Republican Party when I move to Staten Island.

Anyway, a bit off-topic, but I stumbled upon this through a link on Jack Shafer’s Twitter:

How Kathleen Parker, blah, blah, blah…

Now, I’m not one to reflexively deride the venue writers choose to appear in, especially if they’re compensated for their work, and The American Prospect is probably one of the more intellectually compelling, reasonable journals of the left.

That being said, isn’t it a bit odd that someone who’s a contributing editor at an ostensibly libertarian magazine would seek out a bully pulpit that was founded, and is edited, by Robert Kuttner, a doctrinaire social democrat and the foremost proponent of contemporary industrial policy?

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