Hey, if you keep badgering me about Orcs I'll set Mary Gentle loose on you. Then you'll be sorry, Gary.

As for the USMC, they're this century's equivalent of the last century's red-coats. Professional soldiers sent by the leading imperial power to murder citizens of less powerful nations in the pursuit of profit. Bluntly, that's what this is about. The current US administration has committed crimes against humanity and its leaders deserve an appointment before a court in the Hague. There are reports of war crimes coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan, too, and they need investigating and prosecuting where appropriate.

"My country right or wrong" doesn't wash, Gary. Neither does believing that an Al Qaida atrocity justifies your government in committing other atrocities against other peoples.

"...and sends forth armies of Orcs (or the US Marine Corps).

That's terribly funny if you don't actually have a relative or friend in the Marines. Would you really make this sort of reference to your brother or close friend, Charlie?

I guess they all deserve to die, as tools of imperialism, or something. Tools of al Queda don't, but mere eveil tools of imperialism, such as US Marines: fuck'em. They're not human or worthy or oppressed. They're orcs.

Have you ever had an orc as a relative, Charlie? Shared lunch? Considered that they might not be an orc?

Cared about being called an orc?

Thought of yourself as an orc, for calling a person who puts their life on the line to prevent injustice, an orc?

Have you risked your life, time and again, to oppose fascism, to find yourself called an "orc"?

Me, neither.

That's glib, though.

Be sure to never thank someone who is a member of the police. And be sure never to be a victim of a crime. And be sure to never need rescuing by a Marine. <p> Since you never travel, I'm sure this will never come up. But, by all means, tell them what you've said if it should happen. <p> They're orcs. <p> Got it.

And you, apparently, won't be Merry or Pippin.

Gollum, gollum.

http://www.villainsupply.com/ for all your Evil Mastermind needs. Skull Island will fit neatly on the mezzanine in your study, for example and the obvious and convenient self-destruct switch will fall neatly to hand where the cats can get at it. Operators are waiting for your call.

I think the change to Stroessner would be good. "Mr Stroessner has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."

I was thinking of We'll meet again. As in, the final credits to "Dr Strangelove".

It's so good to see real ambition.

After all, leadership of the Conservative Party is such a trivial goal.

But if I vote for you, you're buying the drinks. And we are not going to sing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to the tune of Hernando's Hideaway.

Any chance of Hope Eyrie as the planetary anthem?

According to Warren Ellis they are in the process of moving hosts.

Anyone know what happened to boingboing?

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I'll vote for you.

I mean, you couldn't do WORSE than whoever's doing it now, right?

Russ

Right now I'd vote for you if you could tell me how to get Blosxom working without showing the cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi part. But that's just me. By the way, when you were talking about QuickTopic ads, did you mean those Google text ads over there <-- ? If so, they don't seem too intrusive to me.

Mind you, I'm running AdSubtract, and I see that it has blocked one ad from quicktopic.com so there's obviously something I'm not seeing.

Martin.
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