The Median Sib

This is the third time I’ve started to write something for this blog tonight, and the two previous times, I’ve written a couple of sentences and then stopped and deleted it all. I’m tired of writing about political issues. Nothing I write will make any difference, and I just get all worked up thinking about what I see happening in the world.

I’m just not in the mood to blog tonight. And really, what does it matter? I’ll be back full force in a day or two. For tonight, I’m turning off the computer and going to bed. Good night.

Oh wait! I DID hear something I thought was funny this afternoon. On the radio (as I was driving home from work) there was a discussion of the muslims calling Danish pastries “Roses of the Prophet Muhammed” (now that’s a mouthful - figuratively and literally speaking) to punish the Danes for publishing those cartoons. Yea, that’ll spank ‘em! One of the callers remarked that he was going to order a “RoMo and a cup of decaf” next time he went to the coffee shop. I guess TECHNICALLY it should be a “RoMu”. Either way - I thought it was funny. I could see people all over the world asking for RoMo’s just because it sounds funny - and it points out the absurdity of the whole situation.

OK - a few links for the RoMo… I should google the term and see if it’s an original or if everybody in the world is talking about RoMo’s and I just don’t know it. However, I won’t. If you want to read more about non-abbreviated RoMo’s, check out Atlas Shrugs, The American Princess, Blue Star Chronicles, Michelle Malkin - Here, too.

Now, I mean it this time! Good night!

I discovered a blog new to me - and in it I found a wonderful quote. The blog is Le Sabot Post-Moderne and here’s the quote:

Liberalism has become a philosophy of Western suicide.

I took the quote from a post titled “Danish Cartoons: An issue of sensitivity or free speech?” How have I NOT read this blog before? Here’s more:

What I can’t fathom is the unbelievable stupidity of the Left - particularly in this instance. This is their issue! They are lions when it comes to fighting the Ten Commandments in a courtroom or gagging a kid from praying at the football game.

However, when confronted with true, creeping theocracy, they denounce the victims! I was nearly alone in my Migration and Radicalism class in framing this as a freedom of speech issue. Nearly all of them saw it through a prism of Arab victimization. The cartoon authors were white and European, so inevitably bad. The fact that they were exercising freedoms of press and speech was immaterial. . . .

This is a test, one of many to come. It’s a test of whether or not the West (and especially Europe) has the will to defend its core freedoms in the face of religious totalitarianism.

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