{"id":2173,"date":"2004-04-19T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2004-04-19T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-19T08:09:00","slug":"the-passion-of-the-o-dub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2173","title":{"rendered":"The Passion of the O-Dub"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no idea why I keep torturing myself this way, but I popped over to Oliver Willis’ place (“like kryptonite to functioning synapses”) and was treated to this sanctimonious twaddle<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There’s politics, and then there is morality. George Bush purports to be a Christian, so I hope that he can reconcile himself with his God when he understands the fruits of his deception in getting us in to war, and his continuing refusal to plan for war once the decision had been made.<\/p>\n

Eleven more U.S. troops die in Iraq<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You hear that? Oliver wants us to recognize that God is watching in stern judgment over President Bush (which is fine, so long as the Almighty doesn’t, y’know, try any of that reli<\/i>gious shit in a public building), and he wishes further to remind us that the President is himself personally responsible for the death of each and every American soldier deployed in Iraq, in the same way that, say, John Wayne Gacy <\/a>was responsible for the murder of 33 Illini boys in the late 70s. Because it’s understood<\/i>, you see — it’s been entered into the ledger of indisputable fact<\/i> — that Bush went to war wantonly and dishonestly. After all, the internet told Oliver so.<\/p>\n

Which is why, in the midst of his crassly self-satisfied admonition, it never seems to occur to Oliver that should the President actually believe<\/i> in what he’s doing in Iraq (and I have no reason to think otherwise), then Willis’ comments are so remarkably vulgar as to practically defy description; in fact, under such a revised formulation, Oliver’s comments would represent the worst kind of cheap grace one could ever hope to purchase with a modem and a keyboard.<\/p>\n

And I’m not sure God looks too kindly on that <\/i>either.<\/p>\n

Oliver then concludes his sober metaphysical musings with some inane bromide about needing the world to make the planet work (huh?), before wending his way to the predictable refrain that the country’s only recourse now is to change leadership and hope “the world” re-embraces us (note to Cameroon: even if it doesn’t work out with Kerry, we’ll always have Paris…).<\/p>\n

All of which leads me to believe that maybe O-Dub’s on cold medicine or something. <\/p>\n

In any event, I have another suggestion, one that doesn’t involve our genuflecting before fatted Oil-For-Food <\/a>robber barons: let’s simply work together as a blogging community to see if we can’t find Oliver Willis a Belgian penpal. A female<\/i> Belgian penpal. That way, he’d have his internationalist itch scratched, and who knows — maybe after some long-distance heavy petting, he’d be more inclined to leave the political thinking to grownups, people who aren’t distracted into boner-wielding idiocy by Britney Spears or whatever buxom anime villainess O happens to be yanking his meat to this week.<\/p>\n

Just a thought. I’m not married to it or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have no idea why I keep torturing myself this way, but I popped over to Oliver Willis’ place (“like kryptonite to functioning synapses”) and was treated to this sanctimonious twaddle: There’s politics, and then there is morality. George Bush purports to be a Christian, so I hope that he can reconcile himself with his God when he understands the fruits of his deception in getting us in to war,<\/p>\n

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