Mark, you post so frequently, ever think of starting your own blog? No offence intended, just an observation that you post enough to have your own if you wanted. I'm sure Damian would provide a link.
Posted at 2006-02-12 10:49:08 [PermaLink]Then who would fill in the content, especially when Damians's away? (a LOT!)
Posted at 2006-02-12 11:30:27 [PermaLink]"Perhaps engineering is not a particularly useful qualification for commenting on public policy." Yeah, well, WE ALREADY KNEW THAT, Mark! :)~
(Gang blogging is fun, Walt. It's sorta like the shoe business... when four shoe stores all occupy one block, they each get far more traffic than sitting alone somewhere.)
Brings a lot of sole to the neighborhead, Ran?
Posted at 2006-02-12 14:29:17 [PermaLink]Ran: Actually the engineering comment was an encouragment to examine the other qualification.
This blog may indeed have a lot of non-denominational soul.
Mark
Ottawa
Good post, Mark. "Hurt the National Interests" is as lame as Dawg's "Core Beliefs" standard.
Rather: The editors and cartoonists had asked that a certain culture show the same standard of self-examination and tolerance as Westerners. That, one may assume, is in everyone's better interest, yes? Hindi wants to spin it the other way, because he feels shame, or because he's a shameless apologist, whatever, it's his business.
Whatever, his "pass a law" request is illiberal. He's too short-sighted to see how it would harm him, harm his freedom of expression and harm his precious "Interest of the State".
MarkC; uh oh, qualifications? I could be in trouble here...;)
Posted at 2006-02-12 18:36:22 [PermaLink]