Apuzzlement

TorgoX on 2004-02-26T10:37:08

Dear Log,

So some kook told me to make myself an Amazon wishlist. So I did, and I absentmindedly stuck on it some stuff I'd been eyeing for a while, including Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, which Ignatz had recommended to me.

And SOMEONE bought it for me! I just got it! Spooooooky.

And I've started reading the book and it's weeeeeird. I love it!

Also: "Damn you, gay marriage!"


whats with the bigotry over that side of the pond?

TeeJay on 2004-02-26T11:05:30

I have been following the Gay Marriage row and wondered how it became an issue.

If democrats are supposedly moderate or even (god forbid, left-wing) why haven't they cried foul?

wierd country...

I thought of getting putting an amazon wishlist on my website but I don't think I'd like the underwhelming response.

The Children's Crusade

TorgoX on 2004-02-26T13:12:35

I thought of getting putting an amazon wishlist on my website but I don't think I'd like the underwhelming response.

I set mine up just so I could remember what I wanted to get and/or requist from the public library, when I get around to it. That, I think, is the best reason to have this listy thing. I never expected anyone (but me) would actually buy me anything off it!

I have been following the Gay Marriage row and wondered how it became an issue. If democrats are supposedly moderate or even (god forbid, left-wing) why haven't they cried foul?

Think of the US as an empire of abused children. Everything else is a corollary of that.

Amazon wishlists

pne on 2004-02-26T13:24:05

I set mine up just so I could remember what I wanted to get and/or requist from the public library, when I get around to it. That, I think, is the best reason to have this listy thing. I never expected anyone (but me) would actually buy me anything off it!

*nods* Same here.

I have pointed people to it in the past when they asked what they could get me, but on the whole, I use it to keep track of interesting books that I might get around to buying when I have the spare cash and time.

nemesis sharing

brev on 2004-02-26T18:19:03

I was thinking of loaning you my copy... that was a good one but he has tended to repeat himself since that book.

Incidentally, you and JRS share the same nemesis. Just yesterday he proclaimed in a speech that globalization is dead.