Wednesday, November 12, 2003
(12:15 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Somewhat damaged
Tom Tomorrow links to a correspondence between him and a military blogger who somehow maintained his blog (!) while major combat operations were going on. This is in response to the latest installment of This Modern World, in which Tom makes fun of those who act as though they're fighting the Iraq war by having a blog. Apparently the fact that a handful of pro-war bloggers were actually serving their country while they were maintaining their blog (!) completely discredits this damn cartoon! Come on! Personally, I'll admit that the military blogger "has a point," although it's not quite the point he's making -- I think that it's not always simply stupid or useless to be intellectually involved in a process in which one is not directly physically involved. But I also think it's important to make fun of people who carry it a little bit overboard, from Andrew Sullivan on down. I don't think that a person who has flags all over their car looks any less ridiculous just because some other person with flags on their car happens to have been in the military.
On another note: There is a patient at the chiropractor's office who actually looks like an elf. She's of above average height, but her facial features and hairstyle both remind me of those lovable fantasy creatures. I think she's already married, but if she wasn't, she might want to look into Lord of the Rings-oriented singles groups.
