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Seventies Something - Judith Warner - Domestic Disturbances - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Had to send this on...

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/seventies-something/?ex=1194667200&en=9f5e3fd2cf319f95&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Re: Naomi Klein: The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys - Politics on The Huffington Post

Democracy is messy. It also gets boring (why else would so many not vote, let alone keep current with the political scene?) Ms. Klein is correct in her assertion that it takes some sort of disaster to get things to change. If you don't believe it, try running for local office.

Of course, without any background in an issue, people tend to make the wrong choices. Or trust their government to take care of them. In any event, they are soon bored and withdraw to say how rotten the world is.

The most efficient type of government is run by a benevolent despot. Now the "despot" part is easy, the benevolent part somewhat harder.

Is it a stretch to say that a large corporation is a benevolent despot? Do they usually get what they want and know how to motivate their people? After all, Blackwater people are well trained to do what you want them to do. They are close to 100% successful, too. Could the army do that? 

If it makes sense to hire contractors to feed the troops, is it that much of a stretch to have them provide protection for our personnel? Yes, it costs more money, but the Blackwater families are not rising in protest about the death of their kids, spouses and parents. They are well paid and knew what they were getting into when they signed up. Our reserve units did not.

By God! Why not sub-contract the whole war! Bring our soldiers home and let the war play out the way it does. That would be a logical extension of the contractor issue.

You see, one of the benefits of using contractors is the notion of "plausible deniability." Our elected ones can say that they gave these people the rules to play by and they didn't do it. Not our fault. We'll let the CEO of the company speak in front of a congressional committee and bawl him out. There, that takes care of it, doesn't it?

Some people say we should stop funding the troops so they have to go home. Wouldn't it be better to stop funding the contractors? The war would be lost in days!

Contractors are a double-edged saw. If you start using them, you can easily become addicted. Still, it's a lot better then sending 500,000 troops in. You can imagine the political ruckus that would create!

Or maybe we should think twice the next time before trying to save the universe. Iran anyone?

Father, brother, cousin Jim

PS: Jen, what is this blogger.com thing? Are you blogging?

On Oct 12, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Jen Deaderick wrote:

This is a great interview.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/the-real-blackwater-scand_b_67741.html

Naomi Klein: The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys - Politics on The Huffington Post

This is a great interview.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/the-real-blackwater-scand_b_67741.html

Slummy, Yummy . . . or Dummy? - Judith Warner - Domestic Disturbances - Times Select - New York Times Blog

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/slummy-yummy-or-dummy/

Aphrodite Project: Platforms

http://theaphroditeproject.tv/

How Did Elvis Get Turned Into a Racist? - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/opinion/11guralnick.html?ex=1344484800&en=d854e647a4a854aa&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Think Your Dog Is Smart? Its Collar May Be Even Smarter - New York Times

Noah Paessel is a good friend of mine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/business/yourmoney/05novel.html?em&ex=1186545600&en=2fa9b23e49f62a3a&ei=5087

Another story in the Iraqi whirlwind » GetReligion

http://www.getreligion.org/?p=2577

The Full-Time Blues - New York Times

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/opinion/24warner.html?hp

Reason Magazine - Ova for Sale

http://www.reason.com/news/show/36867.html

We wade through the Mother's Day books so you don't have to. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/id/2165993/nav/tap1/

What kind of praise do kids need to hear? - By Emily Bazelon - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/id/2165995

A third gender in the workplace - The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/05/11/a_third_gender_in_the_workplace/?p1=MEWell_Pos5

A White Tie Kind of Guy - Judith Warner - Domestic Disturbances - Times Select - New York Times Blog

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/a-white-tie-kind-of-guy/

Words That Wound the Working Mother - Judith Warner - Domestic Disturbances - Times Select - New York Times Blog

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/words-that-wound-the-working-mother/

The National Pastime - New York Times

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/opinion/15brooks.html?hp#

Improved Blog Organization!

Now, instead of clogging the Brookline Is My Baby blog with links to articles, I can just throw things up here. Much better.