Or, in other words, 'having your consciousness expanded can hurt, sometimes.' Which migh be why so many people seem to resist it so much.

I won't claim to expand your consciousness with every single post. Or at all. But there are some topics that always seem to degenerate into anger, hostility, or sullen silence. I think it's because whatever camps there are, are often unwilling to really try to understand the other side of the position.

Domestic politics, foreign policy, religion, and others. This is where those topics go.

Be angry, if you want. But if you comment while you're angry, then at least have the courtesy to be literate and thoughtful while you go about it.]]> en-us 2004-05-17T10:10:21-06:00 http://www.humblest.net/archives/angslan/000069.html No, not the Administration, which I'm coming to believe might be both. In this case, specificaly, that idiot Glenn Reynolds, whom I will not presently dignify with a link.... Iraq: Abu Ghraib John Novak 2004-05-17T10:10:21-06:00 http://www.humblest.net/archives/angslan/000063.html And since people complained last time, someone tell me if I remembered to change the color scheme to something more acceptable. I can read it just fine, but evidently my eyes are strange. (It's not the monitor-- looks fine to... Miscellenia John Novak 2004-05-11T21:36:21-06:00 http://www.humblest.net/archives/angslan/000061.html The following is slightly modified version of something I posted to a newsgroup late last week, on the subject of what should happen (not what I thought would happen, at the time, just what I think should happen) on the... Iraq: Abu Ghraib John Novak 2004-05-11T21:30:23-06:00 http://www.humblest.net/archives/angslan/000029.html Cogicophony, it seems, is a tad disappointed or disheartened at the recent decision of the White House to bar France, Germany, Russia and others from bidding for United States administered prime contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, not to... Iraq: Reconstruction John Novak 2003-12-11T22:37:41-06:00