Pretty good.
Roy posted a link to a searching analysis of the Cedar Revolution in pictures, by Michael Totten and his Swaggering Commenteers:
What you see is the difference b between pure hearts and evil ones. The smile on an evil face can never be as refreshing ad one one a good face. Evil betrays itself for all to see.
...coercive people are almost always mean, angry, repressive, and they think it’s all for the greater good…
Look at the faces in each group…A picture tells a thousand stories.
One group looks happy and free,
*******while the other,*********
with their faces covered, looks dark and violent, (why?)...
It almost looks like Men and Elves vs. Orcs from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, doesn’t it? Too bad that in many ways it is. Let’s hope the outcome is the same, albeit with a lot less bloodshed.
...I’ll go out on a limb and say the Syrian thugs look a heckuva lot like the anarchist punks who riot in the streets of San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland, all the way down to the flag-burning and masks.
And I’ll allow as how we can get a wee bit pissed-off up here in Little Beirut when cops pepper-spray infants—a patch, perhaps, on the complex political dynamics currently being played out in Lebanon, but a wise if intemperate person once said something to the effect that unhappiness is relative, and depends solely on one’s circumstances. But that aside, there’s a wee bit of a problem with this pretty-good, ugly-evil analysis that’s au courant. Think a moment, I’m sure you’ll get it…
What a refreshing smile. So happy and free. Beatific, even. No anarchist punk, he.
A former Nazi who fled to South America and became the charismatic leader of a religious sect has been arrested in Argentina on charges of child abuse and torture.
Paul Schaefer, 83, was seized in the town of Tortuguitas, 18 miles west of Buenos Aires, along with six people described as his security team, Argentine police said.
He has been hiding for eight years, ever since a warrant for his arrest on paedophile charges was issued in Chile in August 1996.
Fish in a barrel, but what are you gonna do? And it’s not like Totten really believes that pretty is good, good pretty, and that’s all on earth ye need to know. Right? It’s just, y’know, he’s saying whatever pops into his pretty little head that he thinks might help his cause. One of the strengths of the blogosphere, that soapbox extemporizing. Along with the, the whaddayacallit. Self-correcting thingummy. That.
Oh, and conspiracy-mongering. That, too. An easy thing to fall into, you gaze for long enough into a pretty, pretty smile like Schaefer’s.
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Ub. Ub. Ub. Someone seriously and deliberately proposing that good is pretty and evil ugly? I'm aghast. I've always found that the most dangerous evil is the one equipped with the smile. Or, in some cases, a smirk.
???????? ummm... yeah, since he's a "nazi" that automatically makes him the opposite of an "anarchist punk".