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This week, Bolton bolts, we debate the debate with The Washington Post’s Henry Olsen, kick around the culture with The Atlantic’s Andrew Ferguson, we’ve got a new Long Poll question for you (but you have to be a Ricochet member to vote), Lileks awards the coveted Member Post of The Week, and some thoughts on the 18th anniversary of 9/11.
Music from this week’s show: My City of Ruins by Bruce Springsteen
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I am still listening to the podcast but I had to stop and say the following.
First @roblong is completely right when he made the comparison to Nazis and Germany and Japan.
@jameslileks is speaking out of ignorance and bigotry when he says there was no culture in Afghanistan. Its a place that has a civilization going back thousands of years and was basically the equal to a Saudi Arabia or Iraq level of civilization right up until the Soviets and later decades of civil war have led to there country.
Rob is right the occupation of Afghanistan is a level of the Marshal plan. I would suggest James go out and educate himself a little before speaking in such vehemently ignorant bigoted stuff.
https://www.businessinsider.com/astonishing-photos-of-prewar-afghanistan-show-everyday-life-in-peaceful-kabul-2013-2#-6
https://allthatsinteresting.com/1960s-afghanistan#30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDIbdE2A7cc
I wasn’t talking about Kabul. I was talking about the outlands.
Ferguson is just another example of someone who can’t accept the fact that he no longer has influence and he of course blames it all on Trump. He also strikes me as a-moral, as in not being at all interested in public morality, which is rich when he says how awful the president is. Am I offended by how easily he uses “Jesus” to express his exasperation? No, but it does show what type of conservative he is, which is the exactly the kind that got us to where we are today in a continual, slouch leftward. So go on, write for the soulless Atlantic which is of course telling that they were willing to take him on but jettisoned Kevin Williamson because he actually believes in something, and come on to Ricochet where your old pals will praise and make you feel good about yourself. Please.
Beto and Julian have 0%. 🤣
OK. Name an Afghani artist, author, musician, etc.
Max Ledoux
Beto and Julian have 0%. 🤣
Because the poll can’t do negative numbers.
@torywarwriter accidentally fell into a typical progressive trope, in which bad conditions in a Third World country are blamed on Western colonialists — no matter how many generations ago the colonialists left.
Doesn’t anyone else think Rob Long looks like Newt Gingrich in the podcast photo?
I see Jonathan Winters, Dustin Hoffman, and [edit]
Tim ConwayHenry Gibson.But what movie included those three?
I confess I have no idea who Malcolm Gladwell is.
How long has Peter been suffering from Tourettes?
I think he’s drowned in a butt of Malmsey in Shakespeare’s Henry V, Part II.
@peterrobinson, I think you need to use soap with your quip, rather than toothpaste for a few days.
As for writer’s block, I could give you at least a dozen suggestions that might help.
I confess I have no idea what a “butt of Malmsey” is.
A butt is an old measure about 130 US gallons. Malmsey is a type of wine. This refers to how George, Duke of Clarence supposedly died.
Ah, so that must be what Sir Mix-A-Lot was rapping about, the man loves his Malmsey!
Well, he might have had a different drink in his butts. Courvoisier, perhaps?
It was Sir Mix-A-Lot. You sure it wasn’t a butt in his drink?
That would work, too.
I love hearing some Afghan music, especially performed live, but
Google “Afghan music” — 77,300,000 results
Google “Sir Mix-A-Lot” — 74,000,000 results
Which doesn’t necessarily mean as much as you might think. That doesn’t somehow prove there’s 77 million Afghan songs, for example, and only 74 thousand by Sir Mix-A-Lot. It just counts “mentions” basically, which could be anything.
And “Afghan music” could be songs about knitted quilts…
@kevadis
That
is a totally legitimate point. It is also a legitimate to point out that the wealth and technological advancement of the West let a minority Westerner succeed more than an entire country of musicians. It’s quite probable that there are dozens of Afghani musicians more talented than Mr. Mix-A-Lot. But the USA was able to let some random dude thrive in our society. That’s the big the point.
But I must admit my bias. I do happen to agree with Mr. Mix-A-Lot in some of his aesthetic preferences so I do love his thriving more than if I were a music nerd who spent hours listening to Afghani pop.
Where for love songs they sing of young boys with backsides like peaches…
I’m sure our friends on the left will discuss this toxic masculinity in one of their Ted Talks.
Not if it involves Islam.
But, but, it’s LGBTQcetera.
Actually, just tell them the Afghans are Catholic priests in disguise. Then it will get discussed.
We should be discussing the Afghani dancing boys and Catholic priests in the same breath.
In a similar fashion, I wish to speak of Justin Trudeau’s brownface on a fair and equal playing field as… say, Dave Chapelle making jokes about how the different Alphabet groups don’t get along. Lets try to get everything to one standard. Isn’t that what we all want?
But the Q there doesn’t stand for Quran.
No, but pederasty might be seen as in one or more of those categories.