Thursday, May 12, 2005

I've noticed that sometimes Crusaders say things that they mean to be insulting or critical of their political opponents, but actually just make themselves look bad. For example, consider this excerpt from a post on Samizdata.net: To give you some more perspective on Leunig - the man, I just culled this from his website: I always try to see other angles and sometimes I've dismayed my friends in doing so. When that dreadful war broke out in 1991, when Ireq [sic] invaded Kuwait and the Americans became involved, I was in at The Age office and many of my colleagues were gathered around televisions sets watching these flicking obscure images with a gung - ho attitude of "Bomb the Arabs". I'm not very loyal sometimes: while everyone was displaying this hysterical, lynch - mob mentality, I went out and bought a copy of the Koran. I came back and started reading, and I was absorbed. This was my fist real encounter with the Koran and I'm trying to understand the spirit of these people and I read and read. I remember some fellow coming in and saying, "Oh, you should see what's happening on television, it's astonishing! What are you reading?" and I said "I'm reading the Koran." And he said, "The what? What are you doing that for?" and I said, "I don't know, at this moment I just want to read the Koran." Yep, he's a tosser all right. "Tosser" is an insult in British slang. Now, who looks worse from this quote: Mr. Leunig, or the person insulting him? 10:13:10 AM    comment () The Smell of Money. Devices detect caches of cash: The feds have a machine that can smell money. One sniffs the air — it can pick up a stack of bills from about 10 feet away — for currency's chemical signature. Another beams electrons through packages or luggage to detect trace metals in the green ink. [Gadgetopia] This will make it easier for the government to steal money from people in airports, on buses, in cars, etc. People who want to travel with large amounts of money should consider carrying gold instead. 9:47:47 AM    comment ()

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