tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post2156003696987626147..comments2024-03-15T02:14:38.309-07:00Comments on bloginafog: Today might be a day to remember -Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-6696362817197841762014-04-15T02:01:57.078-07:002014-04-15T02:01:57.078-07:00Putin is now ferrying many young men with buzz-cut...Putin is now ferrying many young men with buzz-cuts to Moldova, whence they cross into the break-away, Russophile Transdniestria, and thence into Southwestern Ukraine. They are neither Mormons nor Jehovah's Witnesses - but (to use Franco's memorable term) Putin's "Fifth Column".<br /><br />The pattern of the annexation of Austria, and of the Czechoslovak Sudetenland "to help oppressed German-speakers" is being repeated ominously.<br /><br />Of course, the USA invaded the tiny British island of Grenada and overthrew its mildly-socialist government because it was "a threat to the security of the Caribbean". Nobody complained - except Damned Commies, of course.Woflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-11349436734330342282014-04-14T14:15:23.381-07:002014-04-14T14:15:23.381-07:00I'm *much* more afraid of what our war-mongeri...I'm *much* more afraid of what our war-mongering U.S. congress might do than Mr. P. I thought Empire went out with pink coloured maps, but I guess I was wrong.bandithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02249941360336027944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-84129827517989844182014-04-14T06:45:18.414-07:002014-04-14T06:45:18.414-07:00It's hard to know what Cato the younger would ...It's hard to know what Cato the younger would have thought of antinatalism. Rome was basically an agricultural society, and breeding labour was very important. I don't know how far his Stoicism would have accommodated our kind of quiet hedonism. Woflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-69840304526341158722014-04-14T04:48:46.510-07:002014-04-14T04:48:46.510-07:00The usefulness or lack of same of NATO is worth de...The usefulness or lack of same of NATO is worth debating. I would not link that to how angry V. Putin appears to get, if he is a rational human being, and he is rational on behalf of Russia, he is not rational and logical on behalf The Ukraine or any other country. Bearzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11288030980271753436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-80961201195469341822014-04-14T03:18:23.586-07:002014-04-14T03:18:23.586-07:00Anthony, what do you think Cato would have made of...Anthony, what do you think Cato would have made of antinatalism and quiet hedonism?Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16333013979246343381noreply@blogger.com