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This is the way, step inside Where will it end? Patiently waiting, it's like an AIDS test, what's ... die, die, die my darling your phone's off the hook, but you're not And open beer bottles off the boy's chipped tooth what you really, really want The morning paper's ink stains my fingers: CCCLXXXVI The morning paper's ink stains my fingers: CCCLXXXV The morning paper's ink stains my fingers: CCCLXXXIV Tuesday, December 25, 2007
The gaps are enormous, we stare from each side -- We were strangers for way too long:
This is just brilliant. Jonah's talking about how William James' "moral equivalent of war" exhortation, often invoked in spirit by liberals, is commensurate with fascist militarization of society:
This trope has hardly been purged from contemporary liberalism. Every day we hear about the "war on cancer," the "war on drugs," the "War on Poverty," and exhortations to make this or that social challenge the "moral equivalent of war."Now, which ubiquitous "war on..." formulation has gone unmentioned here? --Spencer Ackerman
I think it begins with a "T" and ends with an "ah". |