Comments on: Defending Silence

By: SCOTT THE BADGER

SCOTT THE BADGER — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:28:40 +0000

Marianne, Virgil, I keep a copy of Let Your Mind Alone next to my bed, just to help me stay sane.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:48:34 +0000

Marianne/

LOL. So true, so true. Thurber was a classic. He was still writing and doing cartoons for the New Yorker when I was a child–some really, really slyly funny stuff. I used to leaf thru old back issues just to catch his cartoons, among others. The New Yorker had great, great cartoons in those days. Today? Doesn’t seem the same; probably just me though….

By: Zane

Zane — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:16:44 +0000

But that was the genius of Raspaill’s vision, to show the million coming all at once. He knew full well the reality that they would come in drips and drabs, although now they come in waves, but that all of the same moral posturing and betrayals would support the slow invasion as surely as the fast one. Having read it, it’s amazing how many of those characters actually exist and dominate Europe’s “political leadership.” And even more clearly it illustrates that the disease is cultural relativism, that it’s probably terminal in Europe’s case, and that Islam is an opportunistic infection, not the underlying cause of Europe’s sickness.

No, the USA is not far behind, either.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:59:56 +0000

You have to really work hard to freeze to death here in sandy eggo. Which is not to say that dozens of non Americans don’t freeze to death here every year…something to do with deciding to be barefoot winter mountaineers and occasional new tourists who think that a stroll through the hi desert and mountains is just the thing for new immigrants looking for a place in the sun.

By: xairboss

xairboss — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:19:09 +0000

I think that Ben’s lack of response to this is instead of Defending Silence, a very much Defining silence. Well done Lex.

By: Marianne Matthews

Marianne Matthews — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:55:03 +0000

Virgil …James Thurber referred to the ongoing skirmishes between husbands and wives as “the war between men and women” and wrote, and drew, some funny stuff about it. It’s there and it’s true, all right. At this point in life, I regard it as the necessary little scuffling and turning to make the puzzle pieces fit together the way they’re s’posed to. So we can enjoy that little sigh of relief when they do fit.

Marianne