tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11522380.post8571095879285824357..comments2023-10-26T05:57:03.209-07:00Comments on Skeptacles: Cliff Kincaid is full of shitStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211730939356678631noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11522380.post-2093786178954438272007-04-27T08:10:00.000-07:002007-04-27T08:10:00.000-07:00You will love the answers that satirist Armando Ia...You will love the answers that satirist Armando Iannucci offers for a multi-option quiz: <BR/><BR/>Those "columnists who, to this day, still bang on about what an amazing difference democracy has made to the lives of normal Iraqis are:<BR/><BR/>a) Incapable of processing any events in front of their faces. In fact, they're so detached from reality that they can't form any coherent assessment of anything involving people, places, sensory experiences, communicated signals or experiential phenomena of any kind. They're the journalistic equivalent of Helen Keller completely off her face on cider.<BR/><BR/>b) Reanimated zombies, being the souls of journalists from the time of the Boer War but inserted into the lifeless body of the likes of Melanie Phillips. She may look like Melanie Phillips, she may write like Melanie Phillips but, in fact, she's the ranting thought-pus of a brain-dead Victorian.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Somehow the reference make me think of Cliff Kincid whenever I hear about what Armando Iannucci refers as: "Gullible zeroes with less mental originality in their heads than the contents of a worm's thought-bubble." <BR/><BR/>Enjoy the piece in its full glory at: <BR/><EM>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/columnists/story/0,,1968829,00.html</EM>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11522380.post-15238965920639298052007-03-27T19:00:00.000-07:002007-03-27T19:00:00.000-07:00I was also surprised by LSD's positioning on the c...I was also surprised by LSD's positioning on the chart, but maybe I shouldn't have been. I've never used it, but I know some good, intelligent people who've used it many times and carry on just fine, pulling their weight in society just fine.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02211730939356678631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11522380.post-49168775231391054892007-03-27T09:06:00.000-07:002007-03-27T09:06:00.000-07:00Ooops ... guess I can't read. Cannabis was right ...Ooops ... guess I can't read. Cannabis was right in the middle of the chart ... which is ludicrous. Well, anyway, I'm glad somebody's thinking about it.jj mollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15011855944240477996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11522380.post-60520465668043098322007-03-25T13:34:00.000-07:002007-03-25T13:34:00.000-07:00I think the new classification being proposed cert...I think the <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5230006.stm#drugs" REL="nofollow">new classification</A> being proposed certainly improves the conversation, but it's still got problems in my opinion. The only reason heroin and cocaine are at the top is because they are popular, addictive and illegal. Without the drug war, alcohol would be the clear winner with tobacco pulling up a distant second. All the crap drugs that kids use would become far less important. All the poisons that drug dealers put into the drugs would disappear (tobacco notwithstanding) if these things were sold in a regulated manner.<BR/><BR/>I was a little surprised that Marijauna was mentioned at all, and a little surprised that LSD wasn't considered more dangerous, but I'm certainly no expert.jj mollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15011855944240477996noreply@blogger.com