Comments on: Your Take: Polite Company

By: nm

nm — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:15:12 +0000

I think I just got derailment bingo.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:34:40 +0000

…before doing to much damage to your forehead, nm, you might consider this: “war is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means” by carl von clausewitz in his 1832 publication “vom kriege”.

By: nm

nm — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:07:36 +0000

Headdesk.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:12:41 +0000

…fair point, chris n.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:10:18 +0000

…your question about pro-/anti-new deal was really interesting – why do you try so hard to spoil the favourable impression you made earlier?

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:06:28 +0000

I’d argue that World War II was outstandingly apolitical.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:51:08 +0000

I’m glad to see you know how to correctly spell “features,” but it looks to me like you don’t know what it means.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:40:31 +0000

…no, i just thought your question about it was kind of intriguing and tried to answer it by weighing the likelihoods. i don’t know any farmer who’d be against a programme that puts more money into his pocket. actually, i don’t know anybody at all who’d refuse more money. furthermore, i consider world war II an outstandingly political period in the history of mankind. by the way “features” is spelled correctly: features

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:37:01 +0000

Well, that tears it: Jamey Johnson is clearly a socialist.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:23:39 +0000

You speculate that the narrator of “In Color” would “most likely” be pro-New Deal because of one of the time periods in which the song takes place, and then say that the song “features” politics?!