Comments on: The Summit of Dunsinane

By: Karen M

Karen M — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:22:42 +0000

In one of my posts I referred to Stellaa as my spiritual sister in something… don’t remember what, but we traded compliments/thanks/honor, etc. back and forth on that.

By: William Timberman

William Timberman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:48:12 +0000

Thanks, I’ll fix it — the spelling, that is. The rest is harder to fix, but I don’t think that an increase in the number of people shooting each other will help a whole lot.

People are tempted, especially when one of their own is gunned down, but giving in to the temptation hasn’t ever worked out very well. Adnoto is an ego soldier, not the kind of guy that anyone would want to be around for more than ten minutes. Why on earth would we want to adopt his personality as a strategy for living? Blessed are the peacemakers, indeed.

By: LWM

LWM — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:11:41 +0000

You misspelled “Sentinel”

No, our sentinal doesn’t have or need a name.

I’m having difficulty reading again. All this talk and reading and listening gets you nowhere. I’m convinced now that adnoto is correct, has been correct. If you can shoot abortion doctors and justify it as the greater moral good, why not shoot Grover Norquist, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, to name just a few? Surely their favored policies, and their advocation of these policies have led directly – and indirectly – to many deaths and will lead to many more. Now if Adnoto had any balls, he’d put his money where his mouth is, arm himself and get to justifying.

By: William Timberman

William Timberman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:35:43 +0000

You’re right, Stellaa’s a keeper. It’s amazing, isn’t it, that someone who generates the right wave-lengths, or whatever, can write a dozen paragraphs on the Internet, and you could swear that you’ve known them all your life. Thirty years ago, if I’d tried to imagine some process which could knit back together the organic communities which were torn apart by post-industrial society, something as disembodied as the Internet would have been the last sort of thing to occur to me.

It’s like books, in a way, but somehow more present. If the printed word could sometimes unify people of a certain sensibility in a sort of virtual space, there was still the problem that a good half of them were dead, some of them for centuries. The Internet, on the other hand, unifies in both space and time. I’m not sure that we’ve worked out all the implications of that minor miracle, but I have a feeling that we will — if we keep at it, that is.

By: Karen M

Karen M — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:01:52 +0000

Now, this is an agenda I could whole-heartedly support. Ages ago, I wrote something about a Voter’s Platform. I really think we need one. Apparently, Max Baucus is beginning to see the light on single-payer health care, but only because his aides have been getting an earful at the town meetings. Meetings that he has not attended.

For some reason, while reading your post, I thought about one of my favorite O_S bloggers, Stellaa.

She has a new post about Obama’s trip to the ME and, especially to Egypt. http://open.salon.com/blog/stellaa/2009/06/03/obama_in_egypt

I think she might be your cup of tea. (She also lived until recently in Berkley, but moved to a neighboring town. And she is an excellent cook, as her foodie posts reveal.)

Inspired: “they’re too busy collecting underpants and grinding axes”