Megatron Rejuvenate!
Tony Pierce is just great. He refers to Anna's "boyfriend" with quotes and contemplates funeral preparation.#
I am forced to wonder at how I would like my funeral to occur. I agree with Tony that there's no reason for it necessarily to be really down. And additionally, I don't really like the whole come, cry, and leave thing that has been so standard these days and has almost become cliché.
So, why not make it some sort of fun activity? Maybe you could come, listen to my favourite band play, do some ballroom dancing, and then have a really nice dinner. It would be like a birthday party, because just like at a birthday party with lots of people you won't necessarily see me unless I'm standing near the door all night. So how is it much different if no one sees me?
This brings another idea into my head. When I die, my family sends out invitations to "A Party for Jay McCarthy" with no mention of my death. People come and enjoy themselves, then at the end of the night when everybody is wondering about where I am, I make my grand entrance. Not my dead body, but an announcement that I am in fact dead, and I love everybody and I'm glad they were able to enjoy themselves one last time with me, rather than coming in all spooked.
What say yee?
Russell Roberts writes about The Terrorist Talent Pool.#
The implicit criticism is one you hear often about the war on terror: we should just give up, because by fighting terror, we enrage people and enlarge the pool of new recruits to the anti-American cause.
It's an interesting practical concern. Surely if the Hydra grows a new head every time one is removed, then you're simply wasting resources swinging your sword. Better to try some other technique.
But the criticism misses an important point about the distribution of terrorist talent. The criticism assumes that the guy on the bench is just as good as the first stringer. But I assume terrorism is like anything else—some are better at it than others. Getting rid of the best means that the ones who replace the best are not as good. It's like saying that if the top 50 pitchers in baseball decided to become basketball players, new pitchers would come along to replace them and there would still be major league pitchers. Yes, there would still be major league pitchers. But they wouldn't be as good.
Matt Stoller: Kerry wanted to be a slave, Bush didn't.#