I recently read little_whip's article on reinstating the draft Link and felt compelled to speak up as this discussion led me to focus on the idea of National Service. As my access online is spotty i was unable to join in the discussion in a timely manner thus i thought a post here
It's funny but as i was reading this, i felt as if i had read it all before. Even the splended metaphores felt borrowed from the mind of some critic of old. Fittingly, this feeling fit in wonderfully with the topic at hand-the idea of no ownership of language (does this mean ideas as well?). Being as I haven't read Borges or Barthes in over 10 years it would be hard for me to comment critically on much, other than to state that this articl
How does a nation that has tolerated about 40 million abortions suddenly acquire a moral sense about same-sex marriage? Wow, does the majority of this country feel allowing two people of the same-sex to marry is akin to an abortion?
I couldn't agree more with your dilema. Is it too much to ask for a candidate with the strength to take on corporations and terrorism! Not to mention a candidate that would do more for social programs and environment than our current one. It is a sad day when the motivation for a candidate relies upon the negativity of the incumbent rather than the positive changes possible through an engaging personality with a progessive moral agenda. I want to endorse my candidate because I believe in the
I found much right with your thoughts and definitely feel that as a "Bush hater" my rational thoughts are conflicted (I find the use of "clouded" to be negative in connotation) at times. For instance, upon hearing of Saddam's capture I felt thankful and distraught. Thankful, that such a horrible person had been found and the Iraqi's chance of succeeding in this war we are all "slogging" through had increased. Alas, I also felt distraught and conflicted in the fact that our finding Saddam and
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