Comments on: Bunch-o-links: Art and Entertainment http://adistantsoil.com/2009/10/28/bunch-o-links-art-and-entertainment/ The Official Website of A Distant Soil, the legendary graphic novel series from Image Comics. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colleen http://adistantsoil.com/2009/10/28/bunch-o-links-art-and-entertainment/#comment-2345 Colleen Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:19:43 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=4502#comment-2345 Me likey. Thanks for posting that. Me likey. Thanks for posting that.

]]> By: Bill Myers http://adistantsoil.com/2009/10/28/bunch-o-links-art-and-entertainment/#comment-2344 Bill Myers Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:59:29 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=4502#comment-2344 Ah, yes, let me re-post the whole thing... including where I substituted the word "our" for "are," casting into doubt my literacy. Time to quit while I'm behind and go to bed. Ah, yes, let me re-post the whole thing… including where I substituted the word “our” for “are,” casting into doubt my literacy. Time to quit while I’m behind and go to bed.

]]> By: Bill Myers http://adistantsoil.com/2009/10/28/bunch-o-links-art-and-entertainment/#comment-2343 Bill Myers Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:57:39 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=4502#comment-2343 RE: The leftist-objectivist schism, I hope you won't mind if I post something here that I first posted at PeterDavid.net in response to the assertion that "There are no calm, sane, rational conservatives." . (The individuals referred to below are frequent posters at PeterDavid.net. "David the Bold" is *not* Peter David, by the way -- not trying to be condescending, but the Web is Home of the Misunderstanding.) . "I think it’s irrational in the extreme to believe that one side of the ideological spectrum has a lock on rationality, morality, or any other virture. While I disagree passionately with some of 'David the Bold’s' ideas, he presents as someone who is quite rational. . "(I can’t know for sure what he’s like away from the keyboard, of course. But if I had to bet money I’d place my bet on him being a stable and mentally healthy individual.) . "There’s no reason why people of different political persuasions can’t learn to respect each other. I’m quite the lefty in many respects. Yet I have lived for the last eight years with a woman who holds many conservative views, although she’s moved to the left on issues like healthcare. (God forbid that people mix-and-match ideas from different points on the political spectrum! The End Is Near!) Bill Mulligan is quite the conservative in many respects, yet he is one of my closest friends. . "The trick is to acknowledge that we’re all limited, we’re all flawed, and we’re all doing the best we can in a reality that throws more at us than our minds our equipped to handle. We’re all coming to conclusions about the world that are probably tenuous at best in the greater scheme of things. . "Mind you, I’m not abandoning my liberal principles because, tenuous as they may be in the larger scheme, they still strike me as the best conclusions to draw on the basis of what I know. I’m guessing 'David the Bold' feels the same way about his conservative principles. So, as much as he and I disagree, we share at least that much in common. . "Besides, the 'us vs. them' approach to political discourse is intellectually lazy. It substitutes regurgitated talking points and ad hominem attacks for real thought." RE: The leftist-objectivist schism, I hope you won’t mind if I post something here that I first posted at PeterDavid.net in response to the assertion that “There are no calm, sane, rational conservatives.”
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(The individuals referred to below are frequent posters at PeterDavid.net. “David the Bold” is *not* Peter David, by the way — not trying to be condescending, but the Web is Home of the Misunderstanding.)
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“I think it’s irrational in the extreme to believe that one side of the ideological spectrum has a lock on rationality, morality, or any other virture. While I disagree passionately with some of ‘David the Bold’s’ ideas, he presents as someone who is quite rational.
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“(I can’t know for sure what he’s like away from the keyboard, of course. But if I had to bet money I’d place my bet on him being a stable and mentally healthy individual.)
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“There’s no reason why people of different political persuasions can’t learn to respect each other. I’m quite the lefty in many respects. Yet I have lived for the last eight years with a woman who holds many conservative views, although she’s moved to the left on issues like healthcare. (God forbid that people mix-and-match ideas from different points on the political spectrum! The End Is Near!) Bill Mulligan is quite the conservative in many respects, yet he is one of my closest friends.
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“The trick is to acknowledge that we’re all limited, we’re all flawed, and we’re all doing the best we can in a reality that throws more at us than our minds our equipped to handle. We’re all coming to conclusions about the world that are probably tenuous at best in the greater scheme of things.
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“Mind you, I’m not abandoning my liberal principles because, tenuous as they may be in the larger scheme, they still strike me as the best conclusions to draw on the basis of what I know. I’m guessing ‘David the Bold’ feels the same way about his conservative principles. So, as much as he and I disagree, we share at least that much in common.
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“Besides, the ‘us vs. them’ approach to political discourse is intellectually lazy. It substitutes regurgitated talking points and ad hominem attacks for real thought.”

]]> By: Jeremy_A http://adistantsoil.com/2009/10/28/bunch-o-links-art-and-entertainment/#comment-2338 Jeremy_A Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:40:32 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=4502#comment-2338 Considering the lawsuit Harlan Ellison had against him, you'd think James Cameron would be more careful. The double-standards against people of different opinions is both amusing and pathetic. Sure, bash the Objectivists but if they say anything about you, then that is horrible. I usually ascribe to John Stuart Mill's opinion on liberty - how the many should not silence the few nor the few silence the many. I don't mind getting into discussions with people; just can't deal with the "my way is the only way" types. Considering the lawsuit Harlan Ellison had against him, you’d think James Cameron would be more careful.

The double-standards against people of different opinions is both amusing and pathetic. Sure, bash the Objectivists but if they say anything about you, then that is horrible. I usually ascribe to John Stuart Mill’s opinion on liberty – how the many should not silence the few nor the few silence the many.

I don’t mind getting into discussions with people; just can’t deal with the “my way is the only way” types.

]]> By: Colleen http://adistantsoil.com/2009/10/28/bunch-o-links-art-and-entertainment/#comment-2337 Colleen Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:14:50 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=4502#comment-2337 I have a vague memory of reading that book when I was a kid. Plot similarities could be coincidental, but dang, from that synopsis it does look bad. I have a vague memory of reading that book when I was a kid.

Plot similarities could be coincidental, but dang, from that synopsis it does look bad.

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