Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes

Shame on Orenthal James Simpson.

Stop accepting his money. He cannot buy anything with his dirty money now. He will have to rely on good will to support himself from now on, and he won’t have a lot of that to start with, so had better get started.

Say hello

to All the love in the world.

Indict Donald Rumsfeld

If we’re going to be responsible and all, then let’s do this.

Oh, and Donald? Don’t take any trips to Germany in the meantime. They’d have jurisdiction then, you know.

Update: One of my wife’s co-workers suggested that you should be careful also in other countries that might have extradition agreements with Germany. Sorry if that messes up any travel plans you might have had.

Brief concurrence

Glenn Greenwald is right. Donald Rumsfeld may be a war criminal, but he’s our war criminal and we have to deal with him. Germany doesn’t have jurisdiction.

To new beginnings

Everyone makes mistakes

Doctor Biobrain writes,

Everyone’s got a story. Everyone’s got a point of view. Even the idiots. Be kind. That’s all most people want anyway. They don’t want to take over America or to make everyone follow them. They just want a little respect. To be understood. We don’t need to give them everything they want to cool them off. We just need for them to know that they’re not under attack. That we don’t hate them, or plan to ruin their lives. They keep being told otherwise, and we’d be fools for giving them any more reason to believe it. No one’s going to agree with you about everything, but most people don’t expect that either. They just want a little respect. They want you to remember that they’ve got a story. But it never hurts to let them know that you’ve got one too.

Waterfalls have rainbows you know

Yesterday’s radicals become today’s moderates, once a course correction is made. Look back behind and see where we have come from and what we have not yet completely averted. This is not the time to go to sleep and drift downstream, but neither is it necessary to throw men and women overboard.

Those of you who were steering are asked to stay awake as well. This will be a learning experience for you.

Not doomed to repeat, but to be considered

Claire Wolfe, who represents a distinctly conservative but not Republican point of view, has an interesting recollection of how the experience of England’s authoritarian monarchs (which, by the way, seems to be a word with distinctly less negative inference than dictator while meaning essentially the same thing) led to parliamentary supremacy in that country.

We are no longer Englishmen and women, whatever our ancestry. We are not bound to repeat the same ways, but we take recognition of their experience in order to learn from it.