Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Anti-gravity and the struggle against extremism

If you think about it, anti-gravity is a misnomer. Generally, it is used to suggest the absence of gravity, weightlessness. As it is, anti-gravity would be implying that there is a force pushing you up, so you would have a negative weight.

And also, what is this thing with renaming the war on terror a "struggle against extremism"? It seems that the Bush administration is trying to win support for the war in Iraq, and if you ask me, they are getting pretty desperate. In case any children reading this were left behind, remember, the founding fathers were considered quite "extreme". So were the civil rights movements and Gandhi. All of these were revolutionary, and I doubt the Bush administartion thinks of any of these as "bad". Without Gandhi, the British would be hogging all our outsourcing resources. God forbid our customer service calls are answered in America. But this isn't the first time a government has employed the technique to win support for a war. I saw it once before on some old news reels from the 1940's. I didn't understand them though, because they were in German. If the government wants to win public support for the war in Iraq, I have some advice: do something right. As Bill Maher pointed out, the Abu Grab-ass prison scandal was exactly what the Iraqi people feared would happen- that they would be humilated and that some red-necks would blatantly disrespect their beliefs. Now, the goal for the war in Iraq is something that I like- trying to make the world a safer place. Well, we have Saddam Hussein, but we also pissed the fuck out of a few million people. A safer world, you say?

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