Harry Browne, we hardly knew ye

[arkuat]

Yeah, I know about all the bad stuff about Perry Willis double-dealing with the party. But I just recently read for the first time some splendid things Harry Browne wrote during the time when I was ignoring him (which unfortunately for me extended until his death in 2006), about the recent wars and why they were wrong.

It starts here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24444 and continues for three more installments.

I'm a bit disturbed about the prospect of having Clinton succeed Rice as Secretary of State. If this is going to be the case, then I sure hope that Obama has read these posts of Harry Browne and paid close attention to them. I fear that this is not the case.

Comments

[arkuat]

I'm grateful to the site in question, to which I gave almost exactly zero further examination, for keeping the articles in circulation. I'm sure there are many more ironies to be discovered! I'm glad you found the articles interesting (I would have found them extremely comforting in October 2001, when I was growing convinced that all of my compatriots were becoming collectively insane and was desperately seeking for counterexamples).

Dawkins is a dick, and I love reading his books. I too am embarrassed by his Atheist Jihad, but then again, I just tried to read the Acts of the Apostles again (after binging on Gospels), and that was just what I needed to understand that Dawkins's excesses are, well, understandable in the case of a too-comfortable cranky old English don. It also made me want to reread Nietzsche's The Antichristian. And I don't even want to touch the question of who deserves credit or blame for the suicide of good Christian youth. I'm sure that any serious investigation of the question would require detailed investigations of each individual case, which would turn out generally inconclusive, not to mention disrespectful of the dead.

Love your usericon, by the way. Have you tortured any lentils lately?

[scratchmonkey.livejournal.com]

I was also pleasantly surprised to see that the articles had been archived, as they're possibly the most level-headed response that I've seen yet to 9/11.

Yes on the question of blame re: suicide.

If you consider curries a form of torture, then yes.

[arkuat]

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