Harry’s scratchin’ makin’ me twitch.

When I want to a read pro-War point well made, or stuff that really makes me rethink my tendency to creep up my own rectum (yes, I know, I know but its not a bad place to get some thinking done) I read Shuggy’s Blog.

I don’t often agree with the man, but I totally respect his ability with words and the obvious sincerity and his ability to pack more pathos into a sentence than most can into an entire blog. I tend to find he goes well with a fat spliff and 23 Skidoo.

I could not agree more. Thanks.

I, well I prefer less war. What other purpose is there for forgiveness in this context.

As for forgiveness, each individual affected has to deal with the pain in their own way. I am totally with Julies Nicholson, and similarly I am with the parents of the children killed in Iraq, Palestine and yes of course in Israel – to name but a few places.

There is a push, a major push, to divide us all into our nominated categories. That I am afraid I find repulsive. I suspect unwittingly Harry becomes a part of that push.

To justify his one war, he has to justify more war. And in what started as an enlightened piece on forgiveness – he ends up where he’s always been (it seems).

My Palance-style first reaction.

As far as I can gather he’s a pro-war socialist who tends to agree with the likes of Cohen, Hitchens and Ari. So I wouldn’t be suprised if many of his contributions are pro-war. I don’t know if they all are, as I don’t follow that closely. But surely the blog is widely known as a place for the pro-war left? Wasn’t that part of its raison d’etre?

What prompted my original question was your choice of this particular article to raise. I saw nothing duplicitous about it. A perfectly valid topic, a coherent standpoint consistent with previous arguments and a generally intelligent and thoughtful response, always excepting the morons, such as ‘a thought’ who try to whip up a shouting match and all too often succeed. One of the reasons I seldom post there is that when you find a promising contribution the thread is already 130 comments long, with 100 of them being the same people hurling the same abuse at each other.

For myself, I generally find about 70% of the contributors’ articles worthwhile ( I can’t really sustain that much interest in Galloway). I can quite appreciate that you are coming from a different perspective, as many people do ( as I type this I can almost see Sid’s trigger-finger twitching, Jack Palance style) but on that specific thread, I think you are stretching it.

Am I wrong? A genuine question.

What does one need to know?

What do you know about Harry?

That’s rather gnomic. Would you care to expand?

Apart from the inevitable moron, that was a very thoughtful thread. What is your problem with it?

- does anyone know who Harry is at Harry’s Place?

I occasionally go there when I am nearly comatose after catching up with the blogs.

Its just that he’s gone all philosophical about forgiveness.

I didn’t stay long enough to reach a conclusion on where he’s at.

… Oh, never mind.

More freedom of expression from the religion of peace

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1442293,curpg-2.cms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapion_Brothers

It would be interesting to see the newsletter. Criticising fellow students covers a lot of ground.

Birmingham + 6th Form College + In-Your-Face Religious Politics is an incendiary combination.