tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55790082011-04-21T11:38:00.059-07:00Big RedWe-Are-Cheer-Leaders! ROLL CALL!The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081800715380680662004-04-12T13:11:00.000-07:002004-04-12T13:14:59.496-07:00This is the funniest thing I've seen in ages.The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081784470732503812004-04-12T08:26:00.000-07:002004-04-12T08:48:02.170-07:00Suckstapundit and others have been asking why the media has been ignoring Sadr's ties with Iran. Time gives us a possible answer: maybe it's because those ties aren't as definite as some sources want them to be. In addition to questioning the evidence, the Time article makes the good point that it's hard to imagine why Iran would want to throw its not-inconsiderable weight behind Sadr's The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081770314474720012004-04-12T04:31:00.000-07:002004-04-12T04:48:02.966-07:00British Tabloid Report: The Becks Sex Scandal, Day 8
The big news is that a second girl, Sarah Marbeck says she fucked Beckham in the summer of '01, when Manchester United was on a tour of Southeast Asia. I don't think she's nearly as cute as Girl 1 (who, evidently, was a ho back in high school), but she has that snotty aristocratic look that the Brits seem to like. According to The Sun, The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081728208936429582004-04-11T17:00:00.000-07:002004-04-11T17:06:17.513-07:00Congratulations to Phil Mickelson. I was definitely pulling for the poor guy to finally win a major tournament. Brings up an interesting question: why are so many people inclined to root for the underdog? I don't know if Phil Mickelson is a bad guy or not; for all I know, he might run over puppies for fun. But the bare fact that he's done so poorly in majors in the past is enough to make me (The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081722869873290522004-04-11T15:32:00.000-07:002004-04-11T15:37:50.746-07:00I love this post on The Corner, in which Andrew Stuttaford celebrates a Communist electoral victory in Iraq (be sure to read the Guardian article that he links to). Strange bedfellows, huh?The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081720417309156002004-04-11T14:16:00.000-07:002004-04-11T14:59:52.860-07:00I had a long post mostly done about Michael Walzer's article in the last Dissent, but I foolishly deleted it. I'll try to gist-ify what I wrote at greater length yesterday. Here goes: I like Walzer's piece because it's one of very few things that I've read that takes on the question of exactly what we're trying to accomplish in Iraq in a systematic way. Walzer says (and I agree; this part is The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081274239152387022004-04-06T10:55:00.000-07:002004-04-06T11:00:02.543-07:00I absolutely love this Eamon guy. And he hails from the wild lands of the Shaolin! Maybe he and Jahred Adelman were childhood buddies.
"Fuck you, you ho, I don't want you back!"The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081273284660253032004-04-06T10:36:00.000-07:002004-04-06T10:46:03.590-07:00Crooked Timber points out that the top result of a Google search for "Jew" is an anti-semitic site, which deals with lovely topics such as "Jewish-Zionist-Soviet Anti-American Spies." So, here's a link to the Wikipedia entry for Jew. I hope that anyone reading this (I wonder if anyone has ever read my blog?) will follow suit, if they can.The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081272571411750962004-04-06T10:26:00.000-07:002004-04-06T10:32:14.466-07:00So here's a question. Clearly, political civility has been at a very low level for the last ten years or so. People's natural inclination is to blame this on the other side--Democrats blame Republicans and vice versa, conservatives blame liberals and vice versa. When the Historians Of The Future take up this question (assuming, of course, that they agree that civility is at an unusually low The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1081272254755281152004-04-06T09:04:00.000-07:002004-04-06T10:26:57.856-07:00So a dither is being raised on The Corner over whether John Kerry (or any politician, or, for that matter, any person...but mostly John Kerry) can be called a Catholic, given his pro-choice views. The principal posts are here, here, here, and here.
In preparing a response to these arguments, I did some research, principally by reading the Catholic Encyclopedia's long article on excommunication,The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1076269660898664572004-02-08T11:37:00.000-08:002004-02-08T11:49:25.593-08:00Bush on Meet The Press
It was interesting. Bush did a good job in the sense that he didn't obviously fuck up any questions, but I don't think he changed many minds--because he refused to really argue any points. The people I was watching with praised him for doing a good job of staying on message, and he certainly did. But it would've been nice, wouldn't it, if he'd actually given warrants The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1076149192870826202004-02-07T02:12:00.000-08:002004-02-07T02:22:06.280-08:00Okay, so the cover story in the NYT Magazine this week is about kids who write viruses as a hobby (is it me, or have the Magazine's cover stories been just a tad alarmist in the last few weeks?). The opening anecdote is about Mario, a friendly Austrian who's written an automatic trojan horse generator. It's accompanied by a photo of Mario, on the right-hand side of the page if you're reading itThe Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1075978620818076862004-02-05T02:51:00.000-08:002004-02-05T02:58:41.996-08:00This is so stupid it makes my ears bleed. We need an article in the New York Fuckin' Times to tell us that it's irritating when people persistently fuck up their computers? What makes it even worse is that this is one of the featured articles on their website right now. Someone, please tell me it's not on the front page. COME ON NOW! There HAS to be something more newsworthy happening in theThe Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1068743143619254832003-11-13T09:04:00.000-08:002003-11-13T09:13:34.013-08:00Operation Iron Hammer? How fucking gay porn is that? What's the over/under on "days 'til 'Operation Saving Ryan's Privates?'"
This has Wolfowitz's fingerprints all over it. The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1059157094448380082003-07-25T11:18:00.000-07:002003-07-25T11:19:01.200-07:00Unsurprisingly, Ada Louise Huxtable's article about Ground Zero redevelopment in yesterday's Wall Street Journal hits the nail on the head. Reading it was refreshing, especially because the Post has been so amazingly terrible on the subject.
The piece isn't available for free on the Internet, but her argument is essentially this: If Silverstein really controls the redevelopment, it will be The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1058825137323622452003-07-21T15:05:00.000-07:002003-07-21T15:05:37.280-07:00On hiatus for a few months
I've decided that I'm going to wait to try to get this started up in earnest until I have time to really do it right. That should occur by mid-October.The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1058547831935601742003-07-18T10:03:00.000-07:002003-07-18T10:04:34.786-07:00Bruce Springsteen, Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, July 17
The sky was falling and streaked with blood
I heard you calling me then you disappeared into the dust
Up the stairs, into the fire
Up the stairs, into the fire
I need your kiss, but love and duty called you someplace higher
Somewhere up the stairs into the fire
May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1058392477595813882003-07-16T14:54:00.000-07:002003-07-16T14:54:37.600-07:00I think there’s a lot of muddled thinking going on right now about weapons of mass destruction, and the claims the administration is making about them. Most of it manifests itself in the conflation of two separate issues: whether there was a WMD threat from Iraq, and what the Administration said about the existence of that threat, particularly of a nuclear threat. I’m going to deal with them inThe Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1058303133272758402003-07-15T14:05:00.000-07:002003-07-15T14:13:49.113-07:00Already Breaking My First Rule...
But this was just a hysterical line, from a Boston Globe article about the newly-appointed Iraqi council (via Body And Soul):
"I don't know them,'' he said. ''Lots of them were wearing ties by Yves St. Laurent, Armani . . . I've seen their shoes. They're European.''
...or maybe they're metrosexuals?The Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1058222204373933672003-07-14T15:36:00.000-07:002003-07-14T15:36:44.303-07:00A Big Red Manifesto
Hi, blog-reading public! I want to start by writing something that lays out why I’m writing a blog, and how I want to do it. I’m mainly writing this for my benefit—I think that getting what I want to do down on paper will help me to understand it better (and the amount of revision I’ve done on this little four-paragraph thing has already shown me that I needed the help).
IThe Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579008.post-1058222074161217432003-07-14T15:34:00.000-07:002003-07-14T15:34:34.096-07:00TestThe Big Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17028147230376566565noreply@blogger.com