Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: January 2004
Fox Defames MoveOn
Posted on January 5, 2004 in Falsehoods Journalists & Pundits
The wolf always says that the deer is a carnivore.
Rah rah! Cis-Boom-Baa!*
Posted on January 5, 2004 in Humor? Whimsies
The story of a Muslim football league in Irvine inspired me to rethink a few team names.
Fog of War
Posted on January 4, 2004 in Censorship Occupation of Iraq
The fog of war can take many forms: propaganda, disinformation, lack of witnesses. Or maybe the lack of American Middle East experts who can understand Arabic
My Sky Marshal is Tougher than Yours
Posted on January 4, 2004 in Folly Watch Terrorism
What will happen when their sky marshals open fire on our sky marshals or vice versa?
Stu Savory Survives a Year
Posted on January 3, 2004 in Milestones
I’ve been a little behind on my reading of other blogs, but Stu Savory has hit a milestone: one year of blogging!
He posts his visits (bad form say blogging pundits, but Stu, like myself, doesn’t give a damn about arbitrary declarations of ettiquette), notes the Christmas nadir, and declares:
Low numbers you say? Maybe so. But at least I don’t descend to the depths of depravity posting p0rn0 pix in the blog, like another total loser I could name (but I’ll ignore him).
You tell ’em, Stu!
Two New Terms for the “Debate”
Posted on January 2, 2004 in Campaign 2004 IRC/Chat Words
Vichy Democrats: Refers to Democrats like Christopher Lieberman, John Kerry, John Edwards, Richard Gephardt, etc. who believe that the surest way to beat Bush is to act almost exactly like him.
More Latin for George W. Bush’s America
Posted on January 2, 2004 in IRC/Chat Reading
quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt — what good are laws when there are no morals?
Towards A Genuine Culture
Posted on January 1, 2004 in Culture
When we find ourselves asking “If I had it to do over again” questions and come up with the answer that we should have grabbed for more of the toys and sigals, it does not seem to me that we have thought through our existence very well at all.
