Comments on: Barb Weir Interviews Paul Ryan on Equal Rights and the Personhood of Fertilized Corporations

By: Ariadna Theokopoulos

Ariadna Theokopoulos — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:47:19 +0000

They don’t make them anymore; I looked into it a few years ago.
My mother and her generation used to wear them until the 50s when nylons won.
I imagine higher ups (cardinal and above) in the Vatican have them made to order for themselves to enjoy the feel of silk sliding on silk when they cross their legs under those swishing robes discreetly redolent of ‘Mon Ami’ — relieves the tedium of long hours of piety (a passage from the Thorn Birds?).
Yes, make it a silk stockinged leg, fmo, by all means.

By: fool me once...

fool me once... — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:48:48 +0000

@AT
“Let go of Niccolo’s pant leg,”
Did you mean;
Let go of Niccolo’s silk stockinged leg?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/292826411_c95e983cfc.jpg
It’s certainly conjures up a funny mental image

By: Ariadna Theokopoulos

Ariadna Theokopoulos — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:01:44 +0000

It’s brillig, who_me, a time when those slithy toves gyring and gimbling around you can do a number on your discretion.
In all sincerity I would advise you not to carry on until the borogoves get mimsy and you find yourself amid the mome raths outgribing. Let go of Niccolo’s pant leg, you have slain the gay jabberwocky.

By: Barb Weir

Barb Weir — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:36:25 +0000

I find it difficult to blame the book or even the writer. It is the reader that bears the responsibility, although I know very few writers that don’t read what they write. Would it help if we all stop reading? Somehow I doubt it would improve things.

By: who_me

who_me — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:33:02 +0000

Jonathon Blakeley

September 3, 2012 at 6:59 pm

“What is all the G-d bit? Did I miss a memo, when did the Name of the Almighty become hyphenated and why?”

it’s something neocons do. a revival of the ancient hebrew practice of not being allowed to say god’s name? i don’t know.

By: Jonathon Blakeley

Jonathon Blakeley — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:06:15 +0000

Macchiavelli’s Prince has become a classic – recommended reading for all wanna-be leaders, tyrants and bankers. Fascinating it is no doubt but I think etominusipi makes a good point. It has done a lot of damage in the West.

It is largely the blueprint by which we are governed. Fear + Unceratinty + Doubt.

This model must change before it is too late.

By: Jonathon Blakeley

Jonathon Blakeley — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:59:27 +0000

What is all the G-d bit? Did I miss a memo, when did the Name of the Almighty become hyphenated and why?

By: Jonathon Blakeley

Jonathon Blakeley — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:46:06 +0000

@Barb
A very interesting book “the Prince”, I loved it. Great point Barb.

By: etominusipi

etominusipi — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:26:24 +0000

i agree with Ariadna’s gentle advice. no-one can question the value of many of who_me’s incisive contributions, including some excellent links. but a good poster can become less effective by giving way to the temptation to sling online mud at his personal demons. no doubt many of us lapse at times, i’m sure i do – especially after drink has been taken – but it is not something we should wish to encourage. there are things it is natural and wholesome for good-natured people to feel anger about, but raw anger is a very blunt instrument, akin, say, to a power bulldozer. a surgeon’s scalpel is less impressively energetic, yet is much superior in subtlety and flexible application. the bulldozer, in fact, is a fitting symbol of zionism.

however… far be it from me to wish to dictate what or how anyone should write. i would merely ask some contributors to study the prose style of a great writer of fiction, Khalid Amarayeh, whom we had for a while the good fortune of entertaining on deLiberation. his words presented us, and our readers – including the ‘silent’ ones who do not post, amongst them, no doubt, a few of the nimbler-minded amongst the rabid frequenters of Ari’s Plaice – with a supreme example of the successful channeling of anger. he always makes his points concisely and sharply, never for a moment slipping into dull-witted invective or boring diatribes.

By: etominusipi

etominusipi — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:06:34 +0000

coming to deLiberation i feel like a hapless and footsore wanderer who, against all the odds, finds friendship and shelter amongst a lively group of desert nomads in an unsuspected caravanserai.