Hopefully next time these ladies will immolate themselves in a pillar of righteous and cleansing fire, then turn themselves into bats and flitter away.
@HiredGoons: telling off donald rumsfeld during a fancy bday dinner would have been awesome, though! it would've been your best present to yourself ever.
@Ohcaptainmycaptain: I like to laugh at the conspiracy theorists as much as the next man, but equating this person to them merely illustrates how out of touch you are.
If you have never seen "The Fog of War", I highly recommend it. It will almost make you feel a little sorry for the guy. Not that he would even call himself a sympathetic figure, but you do get the sense that he was coming clean, and that what he was saying was finally the real truth. So when he does say that he was wrong, but he was caught up in a system that wanted him to make the decisions he made, it doesn't sound like an excuse. And he gets very specific about all the mistakes that were made - things that he vigorously defended right up until that documentary.
Will Rumsfeld one day have such an epiphany? It won't suddenly make it all better if he does, but at least it would vindicate all those who criticized his decisions, which would (you would hope) make it less likely for others to repeat them.
Okay, can we talk for a second about Sklar's piece? (Sorry, Rachel: here we go). Her justification for the thing's existence is that it allows reporters to cozy up to and establish relationships with sources who wouldn't otherwise show up if not for the celebs. She also takes the Krucoff defense ("It's for charity!").
Can somebody help me understand the many different degrees of "wrong" I feel about this?
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I had to bite my tongue, but I was like: time/place?
This is totes fair game though.
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Once again, it refers to "Me and the Montauk Monster in my pocket"
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If you have never seen "The Fog of War", I highly recommend it. It will almost make you feel a little sorry for the guy. Not that he would even call himself a sympathetic figure, but you do get the sense that he was coming clean, and that what he was saying was finally the real truth. So when he does say that he was wrong, but he was caught up in a system that wanted him to make the decisions he made, it doesn't sound like an excuse. And he gets very specific about all the mistakes that were made - things that he vigorously defended right up until that documentary.
Will Rumsfeld one day have such an epiphany? It won't suddenly make it all better if he does, but at least it would vindicate all those who criticized his decisions, which would (you would hope) make it less likely for others to repeat them.
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There's a simple rule to follow: If anything you do involves people dying, and it cannot be justified as true self defense, it is indefensible.
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Can somebody help me understand the many different degrees of "wrong" I feel about this?
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