JL makes some points:

The Past

1. The most important thing to know about the past is that it has culminated in us, being here, now. Aside from that, it is useful for finding grievous sins which have nothing to do with human nature, but arise entirely from particular human institutions, most of which have appeared in the New York Times in the last month. These are not reflections of human nature, but Jell-O molds into which the malleable and perfectable human spirit has been cruelly poured. We are only a few tweaks away from solving everything. This process began about 40 years ago.

Classic JL tactic, exaggerate and stereotype. Let's do the same: apparently there is some twisted DNA in all of us that excuses every trace of wanton cruelty, Huey Long, selfishness, racism, Dick Cheney, exploitation, Alberto Gonzales and Fox News. And since these things went on in the past, they're just peachy-keen to go on forever. And since it's "human nature", we can absolve ourselves of all these sins.

2. You do not support the “War on Terror” because you are concerned about militant nutwads with overactive theology glands using things that go BANG to harm the planet’s liberal democracies; you hate Mooslems because they don’t pack into a musty hall and gibber at the same god-thing you do, so you’re willing to accept anything the government does as long as it makes your sheeple-knees stop knocking for a day or two.

So everything is black or white and can be simplified into silly reasons you can put in our mouths and then ridicule. And never mind that the "War on Terror" is more like "The Keystone Cops invade the wrong country" followed by "America's silliest airport searches". All this coming from a fallen Lutheran and card-carrying coward.

The rest of his blog I just cannot follow, but picture a scene much like when Hitler would roll around on the floor and chew on the rug. Minus the moustache.


The North Dakota HS debating coach has much to answer for. She must have coached them "When you have absolutely no facts, just strike a pompous uncompromising attitude, twist them clauses up with double negatives until the listeners are completely at sea and more flustered than a short busful of Carmelite Nuns touring a pickle factory." And write -30- to it before they can parse your twisty passages and realize though they sounded impressive as hot air they're no more navigable to logic than Alan Greenspan's eurethra is to a coathanger.