tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post21258209839032632..comments2024-03-16T09:11:27.097-04:00Comments on GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD: BFF'sGrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09760252542953109449noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-1189601395284695812011-02-03T17:46:56.235-05:002011-02-03T17:46:56.235-05:00Hi Don,
Wow! What a great commentary! Thanks very...Hi Don,<br /><br />Wow! What a great commentary! Thanks very.<br /><br />You sound like a great poppa!<br /><br />My 'rents were and are little more than benevolent despots who despise fun of any kind - and i think they used reverse psychology on me to get me interested in stuff when 911 happened and i, uh, bombarded them with one quiz after another. <br /><br />For whatever reasons, eye candy seems to enhance the brand so to speak. Not having a photog or art staff, GsGf's posse is camera heavy and 'easy on the eyes' at the same incredible instant. Guys (foreign and domestic)love it yet girls over 30 do NOT seem to dig my action and that's ok. Serious argument about GsGf seems to focus more on style than substance.<br /><br />Strauss is totally important in Internat'l Relations and Grand Strategy theory because of the deceitfully simple - yet absolutely correct idea of "Which one of these things is not like the other?"<br /><br />The counter that realists often employ and imply is that America must be even handed in her dealings with the world.<br /><br />Like Libya and Canada are equal.<br /><br />Incorrect - America should be radically tilted to her delights, designs and desires<br /><br />Strauss pointed out that relativism and realism shared a dangerously 'tarded "easy going belief that all points of view are equal (hence none really worth passionate argument, deep analysis or stalwart defense) and then into the strident belief that anyone who argues for the superiority of a distinctive moral insight, way of life, or human type is somehow elitist or antidemocratic and hence immoral."<br /><br />Philosophy class, Yay! (Not). She'll know when to pick her battles when she rejects equivalency, and bowing to absurdity at times can often be used later as a set up for a killer cheque mate with professors and the uninformed (often the same).<br /><br />It's implied that a certain hipness is presumed to be in the readership - I prett much write like i talk - FoPo, IR and Grand Strategy is pretty dry stuff - so the slanguage attempt is aimed at getting it sexyfully hooked up to make a point and stand out with a "...unique and unconventional voice all her own..." <br /><br />CoUrTnEyGrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760252542953109449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-41321920189872845632011-02-03T11:00:29.280-05:002011-02-03T11:00:29.280-05:00Courtney,
My younger daughter wondered why I rea...Courtney, <br /><br />My younger daughter wondered why I read your site given the often <i>risqué</i> nature of the pics. <br /><br />Unfortunately, my explanation, "I read it for the articles" sounded precisely like my uncle's defense of the 'Playboy' on his coffee table many decades ago. <br /><br />This article is so chock-full of intellectual goodness and powerful linkage that I have bookmarked several links and will have her read it when she gets home from school. <br /><br />I especially liked the Frontpage article on the Strauss school of conservative thought. It is pertinent as she has just started a Philosophy class. I warned her of the pitfalls of Philosophy but she is at the age where things in print are more authoritative than dad. <br /><br />My older daughter loves your site. She finds the juxtaposition of pics and articles as wonderfully fun and informative. Part of her fun is translating your jargon. I admit I read past the language now but at first it was loads of fun too and when I have the time it adds an element of humor to the most difficult or disturbing subject.<br /><br />Please keep up the good work. I dread the day you find a job and leave college. I'll need to find another source for my foreign policy insight. I guarantee that whatever site I find it will be less easy on the eyes. <br /><br />DonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com