Wordie: Wmd: Comments

Comment by bilby, 10 days ago

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:34:13 +0000

It's just a crooked smile. Like, in this case, when I'm indulging in a Nostalgic Moment. At other times it's brought on by trying to affect a Lancashire accent.

Comment by Prolagus, 10 days ago

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:09:26 +0000

What is your emoticon smoking, bilby?

Comment by bilby, 16 days ago

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:54:28 +0000

Not regularly, rolmonster, though I do noodle around online newspapers of all stripes.

I suppose my first rewarded article was in 'The Star', a campus newspaper of the then Melbourne College of Advanced Education, where I received free tickets to a movie in return for writing a review. It was something by Fassbinder, apparently forgettable :-7

My first paid article was for the Indonesian daily, Republika. I became their Australian correspondent for about 6 years.

Comment by frindley, 16 days ago

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:41:59 +0000

My first paid article appeared in the Brisbane Courier Mail.

Comment by rolig, 17 days ago

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:51:20 +0000

You read the Baltimore Chronicle, bilby? That was the paper where I first got paid for writing.

Comment by bilby, 17 days ago

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:39:28 +0000

"Pretexts for invading and occupying Iraq went from:
* WMDs;
* to removing a dangerous dictator;
* to establishing democracy in the Arab world;
* to preventing a civil war;
* to needing a colonial military victory to retain our global superpower status;
* to reassuring regional regimes they can rely on us for protection; and
* to proving America can fight and defeat 'terrorism.'

However, the longer the conflict continues (as well as the Afghan one), the less credibility any argument holds. The more likely an occupied people will grow more restive and reassertive. A similar likelihood that popular resistance will grow throughout the Middle East, Eurasia and elsewhere. The greater the economic and political cost. The less able a depleted military will be able to sustain foreign wars, and less willing the US public will put up with them. Yet they continue..."
- Stephen Lendman, 'Reviewing Zionism, Militarism, and the Decline of US Power', baltimorechronicle.com, 16 Oct 2008.

2002, American Dialect Society

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:51:52 +0000