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“Going ballistic”

Emotionally enabled by the Berkeley City Council, a small assemblage of the usual silly gits have warmed their own cockles – thrill to the movement, man! – by chaining themselves to the Marine Corps recruiting office in town. The San Francisco Chronicle breathlessly headlines the ensuing interest in the story by writing that the “right wing blogoshpere” has “gone ballistic”.

Your correspondent – who, by the way, has actually been “ballistic” and didn’t enjoy it all that much – believes that those of us who deign to notice the silliness of people who tell passersby that the Marine Corps is training young people to kill babies is to render them entirely too much honor. They’re playing at class clown and reveling in the attention that they get. It’s fun to point at them because they make such easy targets and because we get to paint the entirety of the anti-war movement as having the same degree of intellectual vapidity. Too easy, in fact.

But hese amadons aren’t merely beneath our contempt – they ought to be beneath our scrutiny.

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