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I could be wrong, but I'm not.
Jan. 6th, 2007 03:50 pmI have no idea how Glenn Greenwald got to write an article for a magazine entitled "American Conservative" but here it is, continuing his recent themes of accountability in punditry, particularly from those who until recently claimed that undermining the Glorious War Effort was treasonous and punishable by the most painful of deaths.
Say what you will about the six-day work week (I've said quite a lot, trust me) but it does mean that it's much easier to meet my getting to the gym goals. Tonight should be number four for the week, which was the high end of my list. "Three is basic. Four would be nice." I would tell myself.
It does, however, tend to impact the grocery shopping. My last meal of the week looks like it'll be cheese sammiches, with the last of the bread and cheese from the office meeting party tray leftovers which ended up in the break room for us peons to scavenge. So I did.
UPDATE:
Okay, I just read the article about the FDA approving Slentrol, a diet drug that supresses canine appetite and prevents absorption of fat. Because, says John Bauer the veterinary doctor at Texas A&M, when we eat too much then we feed our animals too much and with our 'increasingly hectic schedules' we can't be bothered to exercize the pets and they spend too much time cooped up in the apartment sitting around and eating out of boredom.
And as part of the it must be somebody else's responsibility because I certainly can't be held culpable for my own actions trend, this drug is urgently needed. Because I have a gods-given right to own an animal even if I can't take care of it. And I certainly can't be expected to actually care for this creature I've taken stewardship over, because I have an Increasingly Hectic Schedule. Which is also certainly not something that I can be held culpable for.
You know what? If you can't or won't take care of yourself, that's one thing. When you control somebody else's life and you can't or won't take that responsibility and then you won't recuse yourself of that responsibility, drugging them into a more convenient state is not fucking acceptable. It's not criminal, but it should be.
And yes, I'm certain there are German Shepherds out there with thyroid issues who have been in desperate need of this drug. However, I don't think that's going to be where you'll see most of Pfizer's income on this new pharma development.
Fuck it.
Further Update
According to that other leftist rag, the New York Times, thirty years of tyranny, insanity, repression and torture have been pretty much dismissed in much of the Arab world by a moment of dignity and strength. As will come as no surprize to many people, Saddam Hussein is being turned into a martyr who stood against 'an occupation force and its collaborators', and died 'calm and composed as his Shiite executioners tormented and abused him'.
I can only hope that it's a passing fad, and that in thirty years we don't see people wearing red Che-style t-shirts with Crazy Saddam on them.
Say what you will about the six-day work week (I've said quite a lot, trust me) but it does mean that it's much easier to meet my getting to the gym goals. Tonight should be number four for the week, which was the high end of my list. "Three is basic. Four would be nice." I would tell myself.
It does, however, tend to impact the grocery shopping. My last meal of the week looks like it'll be cheese sammiches, with the last of the bread and cheese from the office meeting party tray leftovers which ended up in the break room for us peons to scavenge. So I did.
UPDATE:
Okay, I just read the article about the FDA approving Slentrol, a diet drug that supresses canine appetite and prevents absorption of fat. Because, says John Bauer the veterinary doctor at Texas A&M, when we eat too much then we feed our animals too much and with our 'increasingly hectic schedules' we can't be bothered to exercize the pets and they spend too much time cooped up in the apartment sitting around and eating out of boredom.
And as part of the it must be somebody else's responsibility because I certainly can't be held culpable for my own actions trend, this drug is urgently needed. Because I have a gods-given right to own an animal even if I can't take care of it. And I certainly can't be expected to actually care for this creature I've taken stewardship over, because I have an Increasingly Hectic Schedule. Which is also certainly not something that I can be held culpable for.
You know what? If you can't or won't take care of yourself, that's one thing. When you control somebody else's life and you can't or won't take that responsibility and then you won't recuse yourself of that responsibility, drugging them into a more convenient state is not fucking acceptable. It's not criminal, but it should be.
And yes, I'm certain there are German Shepherds out there with thyroid issues who have been in desperate need of this drug. However, I don't think that's going to be where you'll see most of Pfizer's income on this new pharma development.
Fuck it.
Further Update
According to that other leftist rag, the New York Times, thirty years of tyranny, insanity, repression and torture have been pretty much dismissed in much of the Arab world by a moment of dignity and strength. As will come as no surprize to many people, Saddam Hussein is being turned into a martyr who stood against 'an occupation force and its collaborators', and died 'calm and composed as his Shiite executioners tormented and abused him'.
I can only hope that it's a passing fad, and that in thirty years we don't see people wearing red Che-style t-shirts with Crazy Saddam on them.