December 29, 2003
MARK OF THE YEAR
Mark Steyn reviews his punditry, predictions, and pokes-in-the-eye of 2003. Highlights abound, including this:
Posted by Tim Blair at December 29, 2003 09:59 AMIf we have to have an incoherent, self-loathing “peace” movement, then women showing off their hooters in support of a culture that would stone them to death for showing off their ankles is about as good as it’s gonna get.
Tim,
Steyn's eloquence has bereft me of further comment. Except for this: Spot on!!
Posted by: joe at December 29, 2003 at 10:51 AMI'd love to but your link doesn't work, and I can't fix it, because whatever you left out or put in caused the scripts on this site to eat your url. Please read the instructions that I have provided before trying to post a link again, or just post the entire url plain.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 29, 2003 at 11:41 AMThey're not supporting the culture, they're against the war. And the 'incoherent and self-loathing' applies to military families against the war too?
Mark Steyn's argument is like the dumb line of though that concludes that because George W Bush is not in favour of invading North Korea or Switzerland, he is objectively pro-Communist and supports tax evasion.
But, like airhead liberals, Steyn likes flip comments about life and death issues.
Posted by: Adam at December 29, 2003 at 12:08 PMTrue, Adam, Steyn's conflation of 'the culture' and 'the war' is specious. It does serve, however, to highlight the moral disorientation of many in the anti-war movement whose opposition to invasion amounted to support of the existing regime in Iraq... on humanitarian grounds! Tuts oot for Sadaam indeed.
Posted by: Fidens at December 29, 2003 at 12:34 PM(Redux) -- I see, Sissy Willis, that you have posted the missing url in the name field; at least, I presume that is the one you meant.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 29, 2003 at 12:44 PMFidens, please translate "tuts oot" for those of us who don't speak Walloon.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 29, 2003 at 12:47 PMtuts oot: please expose your breasts for my delectation; also: ~ fur the la's. See also: wa-hey!
Posted by: Fidens at December 29, 2003 at 01:24 PMFidens,
I'm curious - "Tuts oot", "Wha-hey" etc. North of England ? Somewhere around Ecky Thump country ?
Or are you further north than that ?
Do you know the Secret of Ecky Thump? Bill Oddie does.
Posted by: Rick Squane at December 29, 2003 at 02:01 PM"they're against the war"
Adam, were they against the war Saddam made on the marsh arabs?
Were they against the war Saddam made on the Kurds?
Were they against the war Saddam made on Kuwait?
Were they against the war Saddam made on Iran?
Were they against the $25,000 bountry Saddam was paying to suicide bombers families?
If the answer to any of the above was no ... then they weren't against war. They were pro-Saddam.
"Fidens, I'm curious - "Tuts oot", "Wha-hey" etc. North of England ? Somewhere around Ecky Thump country ? Or are you further north than that ?"
I think it's Scots dialect Robert. "Tuts oot" sounds like a North-east Scottish rendering of the English - "tits out"! "Wha hey" is derivative of the first line of Robert Burns great poem "Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn" - "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled!"
Posted by: Geoff Honnor at December 29, 2003 at 04:01 PMGreat. A blog that needs simultaneous translation. Next you will be looking for NGO status at the UN.
Posted by: Fred Boness at December 29, 2003 at 04:44 PMThat would be "tuts doon" Kate. Now there's an image.
Posted by: Fidens at December 30, 2003 at 08:04 AM