Comments on: Desperately seeking obsequiousness

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:54:24 +0000

I have had a couple of posts that were picked up by Yahoo recently. Funny thing is that they had nothing to do with the topic. Weird.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:39 +0000

This one got picked up by Yahoo news, too. I have no idea what the pattern is, but I’m pretty sure it has something to do with Sphere.

By: Soccerdad

Soccerdad — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:25:50 +0000

Whoops, that should have said Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

UPDATE: Fixed.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:18:16 +0000

So the “Crossposted on Yourish” tag at the bottom didn’t give you a hint?

I’m not mad, just sighing heavily.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:51:09 +0000

My apologies, meryl. I just moved, don’t have home computer service yet, and my time on the library computer was about to expire.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:37:31 +0000

Alex, even now, you can’t tell the difference between Soccer Dad’s posts and mine?

I’ve had co-bloggers for a very long time now.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:18:02 +0000

Popular instead of strong? And the result, Meryl, will of course be that we won’t be either. The Arabs and Iranians will not see our toadying as a sign of goodwill to be met by goodwill on their side, but as weakness to be exploited.

That sort of choice reminds me more and more of Churchill’s assessment of likely British policy at Munich in 1938–the choice was, he said, between shame and war. “They have chosen shame and they will get war.”

Meanwhile, nearly a billion smackers for Hamas? Not likely to force them to deal with the consequences of their actions.

Thank goodness baseball season is about to start.