> i'm surprised nobody's blown the whistle on all these
> drunk jokes. change it up a little, at least; let's hear
> some gimp jokes and spic jokes.
I hadn't heard, being a drunken obnoxious fuck is now known to be a congenital condition?
Shucks, learn something new every day.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Chris Kromm
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:04 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Hitch gloats (like a fool)
>
>
> This one seems especially ill-reasoned and defensively haughty, even for
> King Drunk himself. Couple this with his petty outrage at a fact-checker in
> last week's Nation, and all the signs of brain rot are there. Pass the man
> another drink -- maybe he'll slip into a coma.
>
>
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:44:23 -0500
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Hitch gloats
>
> Guardian (London) - November 14, 2001
>
> Ha ha ha to the pacifists
> Christopher Hitchens
>
> There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the
> tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor of the American Express
> travel magazine, Departures. Together, we evolved a harmless satire
> of the slightly drivelling style employed by the journalists of
> tourism. "Land of Contrasts" was our shorthand for it. ("Jerusalem:
> an enthralling blend of old and new." "South Africa: a harmony in
> black and white." "Belfast, where ancient meets modern.") It was as
> you can see, no difficult task. I began to notice a few weeks ago
> that my enemies in the "peace" movement had decided to borrow from
> this tattered style book. The mantra, especially in the letters to
> this newspaper, was: "Afghanistan, where the world's richest country
> rains bombs on the world's poorest country."
>
> Poor fools. They should never have tried to beat me at this game.
> What about, "Afghanistan, where the world's most open society
> confronts the world's most closed one"? "Where American women pilots
> kill the men who enslave women." "Where the world's most
> indiscriminate bombers are bombed by the world's most accurate ones."
> "Where the largest number of poor people applaud the bombing of their
> own regime." I could go on. (I think number four may need a little
> work.) But there are some suggested contrasts for the "doves" to
> paste into their scrapbook. Incidentally, when they look at their
> scrapbooks they will be able to re-read themselves saying things
> like, "The bombing of Kosovo is driving the Serbs into the arms of
> Milosevic."
>
> If the silly policy of a Ramadan pause had been adopted, the citizens
> of Kabul would have still been under a regime of medieval cruelty,
> and their oppresssors would have been busily regrouping, not praying.
> Anyhow, what a damn-fool proposal to start with. I don't stop
> insulting the Christian coalition at Eastertime. Come Yom Kippur I
> tend to step up my scornful remarks about Zionism. Whatever happened
> to the robust secularism that used to help characterise the left? And
> why is it suddenly only the injured feelings of Muslims that count? A
> couple of years ago, the same people were striking pompous attitudes
> about the need to avoid offending Serbian and therefore Russian
> Orthodox sensitivities. Except that those sensitive people, or their
> leaders, were engaged in putting the Muslims of Europe to the sword...
>
> There's no pleasing some people, but as a charter supporter of CND I
> can remember a time when the peace movement was not an auxiliary to
> dictators and aggressors in trouble. Looking at some of the
> mind-rotting tripe that comes my way from much of today's left, I get
> the impression that they go to bed saying: what have I done for
> Saddam Hussein or good old Slobodan or the Taliban today?
>
> Well, ha ha ha, and yah, boo. It was obvious from the very start that
> the United States had no alternative but to do what it has done. It
> was also obvious that defeat was impossible. The Taliban will soon be
> history. Al-Qaida will take longer. There will be other mutants to
> fight. But if, as the peaceniks like to moan, more Bin Ladens will
> spring up to take his place, I can offer this assurance: should that
> be the case, there are many many more who will also spring up to kill
> him all over again. And there are more of us and we are both smarter
> and nicer, as well as surprisingly insistent that our culture demands
> respect, too.
>
>
-- no Onan
Undefeated, everybody goes home