It would not be a good thing if I only dredged up material from long ago to put here, when the whole idea of blogs is to be quasi-real-time responsive to what is going on. Here are just a few assertions to be justified later:
* If Kerry wins, the foreign press will be just as anti-American, Islamic extremists will be just as anti-American, and the world will not be a safer place.
* The Weapons of Mass Destruction are in Syria.
* The religious right in Australia is unreasonably hung up on homosexuality, and ought to be supporting same-sex marriage as one of the least morally dubious methods of contraception.
And, here is my favourite quote from Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses":
Any new idea, Mahound, is asked two questions.
The first is asked when it’s weak:
WHAT KIND OF AN IDEA ARE YOU?
Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;
or are you the cursed, bloody-minded ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?
- the kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, be smashed to bits;
but the hundredth time, will change the world?
What’s the second question? Gibreel asked.
Answer the first one first.
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