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Week of September 27, 2009 - October 3, 2009

What is still at stake


"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed" --Randall Terry

This is a regressive view of health. And it is, in this case, centered around who controls someone else's vagina and other relevant parts of someone else's body; and these parts include, but are not limited to wombs, at the level of the organ; and T-cells at the level of components of the immune system. When one's gaze is upon T-cells, one is not far from seeing all human blood.

From questions about our common blood, one can wander into deeper questions; questions about myth; being; and generalized notions and inquiries about "what are we going to to with ourselves?" and "well, what is a self?"; or into questions about medical research and what that might look like in, say, 75 years. Some of us will be alive in 75 years.

I'd say a medieval view of health; but apparently, it was (while relatively primitive by our standards) not entirely bad in the bad old days; see pages 78-80 about, of all things, female ejaculation.

The personal remains political.

There is not a limit, there is no boundary, that will not be crossed or violated by the kinds of people who dress like Nazis and go to gun shows because, they say, of a wish to protect their culture from fascism.

Regarding: WaPo Columnist Should Have Checked Out The Guestbook At Nazi Propaganda Exhibit


Over here wossname reports that some random click-n-drool hominid banged on his keyboard.

Some questions:

1) What the hell is cyber? Is it even word? Or is it just filler-text from a hot-key on some keyboard only available to newly enfranchised computer owners with access to blogging software? Something with a logo explained in an eMachine's manual as meaning "Hip phrases for the technologically challenged"?

Seriously. The only definitions I can find indicate it means:

a) to have; as in 'To have bigots'...no, I don't think so.

b) that it is somehow derived from kybernetes, Greek for "steersman" or "governor"; giving us....Steersman Bigots? Governor Bigots? WTF?!?

c) The theoretical study of communication and control processes in biological, mechanical, and electronic systems, especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems.

So perhaps he's saying "Given the ubiquity of connectivity, we in the larger society can make a close study of bigotry; its nature, how it spreads; its content; and develop strategies to mitigate its damage to the larger culture. Since we can do this, we should probably banish them before we undertake to understand how we can engage in preventative self-defense against the insidious nature of their activities."

An even bolder WTF?!?

If it has no meaning in a discourse, is it really a word? If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a bell?

2) Did Gerson suggest banishing the Cyber bigots to Free Speech Zones?
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