23 Replies to “In which I hold a brief and pointed political conversation with the ragged hole in the left knee of my Quicksilver blue jeans”

1. Sean M. says:

   August 30, 2005 at 9:09 pm

   BINGO?

2. Jeff Goldstein says:

   August 30, 2005 at 9:12 pm

   No, not this time.  Though had I been talking to a hole in my cat, you’d be absolutely correct.

3. A fine scotch says:

   August 30, 2005 at 9:16 pm

   HOLE-O-PHOBE!

4. A fine scotch says:

   August 30, 2005 at 9:17 pm

   oh, and GAY PORN COCK OF LIES!  Just because the expression makes me giggle.

5. me says:

   August 30, 2005 at 9:29 pm

   Not a Levi’s kinda person?

6. Jeff Goldstein says:

   August 30, 2005 at 9:32 pm

   I’m all over the jean spectrum.

7. Amber says:

   August 30, 2005 at 9:52 pm

   I didn’t think a “fucking hole” was found in the vicinity of the knee…

8. kbiel says:

   August 30, 2005 at 10:04 pm

   That’s probably the most intelligent conversation with a lefty that I’ve seen since before November 2000.

9. Hoodlumman says:

   August 30, 2005 at 10:10 pm

   The hole’s silence speaks volumes…

10. The Virginia Wolf says:

    August 30, 2005 at 10:19 pm

    STOP ATTACKING THE HOLE FOR BEING A HOLE AND ADDRESS IT’S QUESTIONS!, or something.

11. TallDave says:

    August 30, 2005 at 11:33 pm

    Another Iraqi Army unit steps up.

    MUQDADIYAH, IRAQ – In the fertile “bread basket” of central Iraq’s Diyala valley, roadside-bomb attacks have nearly stopped.
    
    The relative peace in the breadbasket is the result of a carefully managed transition from US to Iraqi security responsibility, US and Iraqi commanders say.
    
    While roadside-bomb attacks in July were down more than 30 percent compared to the same month last year, the drop has been especially drastic in August. The local Iraqi Army unit, the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, officially took the lead in a roughly 1,158 square-mile battle space, containing nearly 300,000 residents, on July 31.
    
    “We’re responsible for actual security, and it is going well,” says the unit’s commander, Col. Theya Ismail al-Tamimi, a former intelligence officer under Saddam Hussein who has gained the Americans’ respect by keeping constant pressure on the insurgents. “Attacks are a fraction of what they were,” says Colonel Theya, as he is known to both his own troops and the Americans.
    
    US troops recently closed down one of their forward operating bases near here, “since the area was so calm,” Lt. Col. Roger Cloutier, a US battalion commander, says.
    

12. Major John says:

    August 31, 2005 at 12:14 am

    TallDave,

    That sounds suspiciously like suceeding to me.  Stop that crazy talk! HALLIKUDNIKBURTONIST!

13. Sean M. says:

    August 31, 2005 at 12:16 am

    It’s not success, Major.  It’s “deferred failure.”

14. Joshua Scholar says:

    August 31, 2005 at 12:28 am

    “I bet you think we’re losing the war, don’t you [don’t you, don’t you!]”

    New Carly Simon lyric?

15. Holepocrite says:

    August 31, 2005 at 2:30 am

    BECAUSE OF THE HOLEPOCRISY!!

16. bobonthebellbuoy says:

    August 31, 2005 at 2:33 am

    A neatly stiched red velvet heart will cover a hole. Jeans don’t have sleeves so a pant leg will have to do. Besides they “Support the Troops!”
    
    TW “effects” as denim has strange effects on Jeff. Cause he… you know, questions their patriotic stance.

17. AWG says:

    August 31, 2005 at 11:14 am

    Jeff, I think you’re forgetting the hole’s ABSOLUTE MORAL AUTHORITY.

18. none says:

    August 31, 2005 at 11:26 am

    The snag in my wife’s sweater has similar thoughts but, since it gets to touch her boobs all day I feel only jealousy.

19. RS says:

    August 31, 2005 at 2:44 pm

    Let’s Pie Paul Wolfowitz
    
    Assassination? There’s a More Effective Way to ‘Take Someone Out’

    BY Rick Sterling
    
    Tuesday, August 30, 2005

    If Paul Wolfowitz thinks his enemies are trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. This man is a terrific danger. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability.

    I would have thought it illegal to make a statement calling for the assassination of someone. However we have seen that it is not. On a television show with hundreds of thousands of viewers, “700 Club” Reverend Pat Robertson issued a threat identical to the above except it was against the democratically elected President of Venezuela. In response to the embarrassment, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the issue by saying, “Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time.” No charges have been laid against Robertson so evidently it is not illegal.

    It is tempting to call for the assassination of Paul Wolfowitz. More than any other single individual, he is responsible for the deaths of nearly two thousand US troops and over one hundred thousand innocent Iraquis. He and his policies have undermined international peace and security, squandered billions of dollars needed for health and education, and generally caused international opinion to increasingly view the United States as a rogue state. His death would seem to be a measure of justice.

    However, I don’t want to do that. For one thing, I don’t believe in the death penalty. For another, it would give an excuse to those who want to take away our freedoms at home. They would exploit the assassination of Paul Wolfowitz to ratchet repression against those opposing their policies.

    A good old-fashioned knee-capping of Paul Wolfowitz would seem appropriate, sending a message to those of his ilk that they are not immune from all the pain they are causing. However, that too would probably be counter-productive. The same repression would be unleashed and I am sure Fox T.V. would have lots of sympathetic portrayals of the courageous chicken-hawk.

    Instead how about this: a good old-fashioned pie or tomato in the face? If one can call for the assassination of someone with impunity, what risk is there in calling for the pie-ing of someone? So let it be said: “If Paul Wolfowitz thinks someone is out to pie him, I think we really ought to do it. This man is a terrific danger. We have the ability to pie him and I think the time has come to exercise that ability.”

    I suggest that John Bolton to the list of good targets. He is part and parcel of the Wolfowitz gang that has hijacked U.S. foreign policy, destroyed so much and killed so many innocent or well-meaning people. A pie in the face—hopefully well-publicized—would underscore the truth that he does not represent the best of America … only the worst.

    Rick Sterling is an engineer at UC Berkeley and a Bay Area activist. Send comments to .

    http://www.dailycal.org/particle.php?id=19246

20. Sean M. says:

    August 31, 2005 at 3:02 pm

    All that’s missing, RS, are the words “neocon,” “cabal,” and a nudge and a wink.

21. Defense Guy says:

    August 31, 2005 at 3:18 pm

    RS

    I sent a letter to the paper.  That is simply unacceptable and a retraction and apology are in order.

22. TallDave says:

    August 31, 2005 at 3:49 pm

    Don’t you see the inescapable logic here?

    Removing tyrants = bad. 

    Removing democratic officials who remove tyrants = good.

    I wonder if it ever occurred to Rick that the blame for all that suffering is properly assigned Saddam Hussein, not Wolfowitz.  I’m guessing not.

23. AWG says:

    August 31, 2005 at 4:54 pm

    Why do Rick Sterling and his ilk insist on ATTACKING Wolfowitz instead of ADDRESSING HIS POINTS???

    Could it be…

    (wait for it)

    BECAUSE OF THE HIPOCRASY?!?!?!?

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