George Will? I can only imagine next you'll be lionizing Andy Rooney. You really are a grumpy old man.

http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Will-Denim-s-an-infantile-uniform-for-1611966.php

George Will is quite a funny lunatic isn't he? Absolutely *priceless*.

What an article, Putin. I also happen to loathe the fact that jeans are everywhere. No need to draw some overarching social conclusions from it though, it only makes you sound like a moralist whiner. Which might be the case with Will, never heard of him so hard to judge. He probably is, such assisine attititudes seldom account for much more.

Is there something wrong with re-establishing the natural flow of river systems? I have two examples that show the current policies towards them are not just ecologically destructive but economically as well.

First, the Colorado River. It no longer runs to the sea because so much water is diverted for Las Vegas, Phoenix, Lake Mead, etc. This impacts Mexico, who gets no benefit from the diversions. So, at the Colorado Delta, there are wetlands where endangered species live, and it's Mexico's job to protect them, but they're not the ones destroying the habitat by drying up the river. So they convinced the US to find a way to preserve the wetlands which was done by rerouting some of the diverted water directly to the wetlands instead of just letting the river flow, costing a significant amount of money.

The Mekong is the other example, where China's rapids blasting and damming has severely reduced the size and quantity and variety of fish which can be caught downriver in areas like Laos and Cambodia that rely upon their fishing industry. As the right to swing my fist ends at your face, should not the right to dam a river end when it impacts other countries who share that waterway? China isn't doing any kind of reparations, unlike the US, so it's not costing them a cent, but it definitely has an economic impact.

I read the jeans Will article, and I have to say...does he realize that most of the things he's talking shit about in modern culture have existed for some time? He taunts Batman movies and cartoons for adults, but both of those reach back to the 60's at minimum. The Flintstones was originally sponsored by cigarette companies and ran in prime time. To say nothing of Fritz the Cat, etc.

So if you are playing a progressive in diplomacy who hangs at the Wall Street protests and he makes a bad move don't be surprised when you hear "Mulligan!"

George Will has a great command of history.
The Wall Street protests by misguided twenty somethings will hopefully hurt the lunatic liberal socialists as they did forty years ago.

"From 1965 through 1968, the left found its voice and style in consciousness-raising demonstrations and disruptions. In November 1968, the nation, its consciousness raised, elected Richard Nixon president and gave 56.9 percent of the popular vote to Nixon or George Wallace. Republicans won four of the next five presidential elections."

George Will's latest piece is absolutely fabulous.

Progressives have long lamented the fact that the Framers designed a Constitution replete with impediments to federal government activism — fetters such as federalism itself, enumerated powers, three branches of government, two rivalrous wings of the legislative branch, supermajorities, judicial review and presidential vetoes.

George Will's one lines keep going.

Obama, a floundering naif who thinks ATMs aggravate unemployment, is bewildered by a national tragedy of shattered dreams, decaying workforce skills and forgone wealth creation.

More priceless George Will

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Does it count as spamming the forum when TC keep rebumping this thread and he is the only one who has posted in it since Oct 13th?

Thanks to the new mute button nonsense, there is no such thing as spamming any more. Sure puts those of us who oppose it on principle at a real disadvantage...

yeah. oh well. maybe its time....

Agreed, the mute button is the worst thing to happen to this forum since Tettleton's Chew.

Are they really principles you believe in if you whine about them?

I fully embrace the mute button on principle. Anyone can post whatever is on their mind in an exercise of free speech, and anyone is free to choose what they do and don't read. The mute button is brilliantly empowering of the individual.

Tettleton, you have some interesting things to say and I am sympathetic to many or most of your views. Your posts are generally free of grammatical error and show a fair amount of thought behind them. I have to wonder, why the heck post them here?

Why not?
I play diplomacy here constantly.
This forum pops up on my screen every time I log in.
The forum is covered with the idiot rantings of brain dead socialists, ignorant teenagers, and fools.
Why not post something of substance and intelligence instead?

Anyone who says that Will doesn't go after Republicans simply never reads him.

A jewel from his column today.

"Newt Gingrich, never one to miss an opportunity for rhetorical flamboyance..." LOL!