Re: a comment on A Poem For George Bush by Edna Sweetlove	11-Aug-06/5:01 PM
That's racist.
Re: Memories Of Home by Edna Sweetlove	11-Aug-06/4:57 PM
Were I but ten years younger, I'd have scalded this piece beyond all reckoning. Alas my obstinate buttocks have outgrown their jodhpurs, and whilst they clung loyally to their master's haunches for a time, it was with an act of tearful necessity that I disembarked from their fleshy embrace and watched them flee like dwarves into the cold dark night.
Re: Descartes' Immortal Truth by Edna Sweetlove	11-Aug-06/12:31 PM
Try to imagine not shitting. Does a contradiction arise from this proposition? You are a colossal boob.
Re: I don't usually write erotica and this is no exception by Edna Sweetlove	11-Aug-06/12:30 PM
This poeme is disappointing in comparison to the title, which is genius.
Re: a comment on A Poem For George Bush by Edna Sweetlove	10-Aug-06/4:39 PM
Brain-washed? I'm the one who's playing the contrarian here, not you. Ask any dullard on the street what they think about Iraq and they'll say "Blah blah WMD blah blah OIL blah blah HALIBURTON blah blah CIVIL WAR blah blah BUSH'S POODLE". I'm not saying everything is perfect in Iraq. I'm not saying people who disagree with regime change are stupid. I'm saying you're stupid. You aren't thinking for yourself. Your arguments are completely the first thing you hear from a concerned mother on Richard and Judy. They're utterly skin deep, utterly short-sighted, and utterly ignorant of the contradictions on BOTH sides of the fence. Consider Iraq as it was before the invasion. Plot its future in a world where nobody intervenes. Is it a bloodless path? Is it a path that leads closer to a long term solution to the problem? Is it a path that leads nowhere? When Saddam dies, who fills the vacuum? A democratic, federal government? A Zarqawi clone? Saddam's sons? Mother Teresa II? Bill Cosby? The coalition invades, innocent people die. The coalition ignores Iraq, innocent people die. What would you do?
Re: a comment on A Poem For George Bush by Edna Sweetlove	8-Aug-06/4:49 PM
Hmm, so Uncle Sam sold weapons to Saddam. It always surprises me when people use this (usually in combination with the photograph of Rumsfeld shaking hands with the Moustache itself) as an argument against regime change in Iraq. It seems to me that one of the most radical aspects of recent American foreign policy is how it is beginning to spell a break from the old model of propping up dictatorships whenever it seems convenient. It was that kind of short-termist realpolitik which led to the infamous Rumsfeld-Hussein Kodak Moment. If the idea of America selling weapons to Saddam is undesirable (and it is), then I'd have thought it at least slightly pleasing that we've now tossed the scoundrel in jail, and are at least trying to pursue a long term political solution to the Iraqi problem. Your gloating over the prospect of civil war is equally surprising, particularly when the coalition's enemy in Iraq - the insurgency - has openly declared that they want to foment a civil war between Sunnis and Shia. That's why they blow up mosques and fire rockets into crowds of pilgrims. I'll grant there's an argument to be made about whether or not the presence of foreign troops in Iraq makes the situation worse for ordinary Iraqis. It's not a strong enough argument to dissuade me from supporting regime change, but it is at least an argument I can respect. But when you post five verses about the plight of the Iraqi people, spend the entire time spouting Michael Moorisms, AND DON'T DIRECT A SINGLE WORD OF CRITICSM TOWARDS THE INSURGENCY, it makes me think that you're not so much anti-war, as pathologically anti-American. In future, if you want something to blame for the sectarian strife in Iraq, blame more than 20 years under brutal dictatorship, rather than our overdue attempts, against considerable odds, to rectify the situation.
Re: A Time to Dance by Dovina	24-Jul-06/4:21 PM
How Freudian is this? I tend to be more into the solo street styles -- popping, locking, liquiding, liquid-popping, parping, boogaloo, and boogaloo 2. The babes all watch, but they aint got the moves to keep up. Guess that's why I've been such a lone ranger all these years... hustlin' the southside crews for $$$ and throwing some serious funk-shapes in the big leagues. If you want respect, you've got to take it. -no vote-
Re: a comment on How to Bleed by MacFrantic	3-Jul-06/4:09 PM
What is this modern obsession with shirts without pockets? The other day I went to a party after work and didn't have time to get changed. When I arrived some people laughed at me because my shirt had a pocket. I was like "yeah I don't really care what clothes I wear I'm like more into the casual freestyle scene and like I don't need to be confined by the rigid 'no pocket' mores of society." The next day I rushed to the shops and bought a pocketless shirt. Good Christ what have I become?
Re: 72 virgins (but the bitches ain't fun) by ALChemy	2-Jul-06/7:29 AM
I'd be more worried about the 72 mothers-in-law.
Re: Goliath by amanda_dcosta	2-Jul-06/7:18 AM
Yeah good analogy. Goliath is big, bad and scary. Lets use him as a metaphor for all the big, bad, scary things in life.
Re: Southern Baptist Redneck Song by Edna Sweetlove	2-Jul-06/4:29 AM
What biting satire! I wish I had your talent for picking out such original targets for ridicule. Southern, Bible-bashing rednecks -- it's about time someone took them down a peg or two. It must take a lot of courage to be so controversial. -10-
Re: Feelings for a Lost Love by denisebar2006	9-Apr-06/12:40 PM
Memories of a Lost Love by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. August 2002 ----------------------- It's three years since I bid her goodbye. She adored me, and so her did I. Life then was bliss, Though I surely won't miss The taste of her skank cherry pie.
Re: The Peccadillary by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	17-Mar-06/3:22 PM
http://snipurl.com/nemt
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	11-Mar-06/6:02 AM
"who's to say it would have been as bloody and messy as what we've precipitated?" It's a judgement call. But think carefully about the environment in a failed rogue state. Is it the sort of place in which ordinary people can pull down their pants and form a representative government? Or does power inevitably end up in the hands of the most ruthless militant in the region? To what extent is the insurgency fuelled (as opposed to hampered) by the coalition's presence? I would simply say judge the insurgency by what the insurgency does. Its victims have been overwhelmingly Iraqi. Its tactics have consisted in finding imaginative new ways to target civilians. It has absolutely no political voice, other than a discordant braying for a return to god-knows-what brand of medievalism. It is beyond reason, and beyond motive. In my opinion, without the backing of a coalition to rebuild Iraq, the whole country would look like Fallujah. "Mostly, though, I'm practical and endlessly cynical about politics" The presumption is that the government is in a perpetual process of aggrandising its power, and that the citizens should be wary of that. But that presumption, taken to a point, blinds YOU, if you end up believing only what you want to believe, and simply refuse to listen to what people in power are saying because it's a priori a pack of lies. Cynicism becomes a mantra. I'm not saying you're like that; I'm just saying you're an extremely naughty little girl who should be more like me: so cynical you're cynical about cynicism.
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	9-Mar-06/5:07 PM
Well that was a rather limp ending to a clash of ideologies. The majority of the opinions gushing from the anti-war crowd reek of defaultism of the worst kind. "The only good kind of radicalism, is anti-American radicalism." Even our own ecargo betrayed the short-termism that simmers beneath the surface of their pious verbiage. Iraqis would be better off under Saddam? If he could see past his own nose, he'd realise that Saddam wasn't going to be there forever, that the country was heading for implosion, and that wherever that took us, it was going to be bloody. Of course there'd be the obligatory influx of foreign extremists, the inter-tribal skulduggery, and, yes, civilian casualties. All of this without the presence of a coalition force to do what they can to rebuild the country. Criticise the neo-cons for being too idealistic, or too ambitious, or too wreckless -- it takes years, not months to build a working democracy -- but if you ask me, it's the only long term solution to the problem, and it's a welcome change from propping up dictatorships for a quick and easy ride.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	9-Mar-06/4:24 PM
And those dogs who printed those cartoons should be punished for their crimes. Cartoons depicting -=MUSLIM=- should be answered with postcards from Planet Rage. The streets of Denmark should be awash with the blood of fallen prawnes.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	7-Mar-06/4:47 PM
You'd have to believe in it first. Otherwise you'd be thrust into a pair of exquisite poulaines for all eternity.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	7-Mar-06/4:44 PM
Atheism isn't a proposition. It's a noun. Your entire life is a moral and intellectual abdication.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	7-Mar-06/4:20 PM
Actually I've changed my mind. I do believe in God because, you know, just look at the world around us. And because He's beyond our understanding. Yes, that must be it.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	7-Mar-06/4:06 PM
No you couldn't. Anyway you don't even understand what atheism is (I suggest you start here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism). To understand my position, consider this: if I told you there was an invisible shoehorn floating behind Saturn, would you believe me? No. Could you prove it false? No. Does your not believing me therefore constitute an act of faith? No. Because there is a fucking difference between 'rejection of belief in X' and 'assertion of Not X'. Every claim I've heard people make about God is unverifiable, just like the claim I made about the invisible shoehorn. I believe in God just as much as I believe in invisible shoehorns behind Saturn. I mean, at least invisible shoehorns don't have the capacity to perform miracles.