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View Article  Hey Warren: Quick question

Update: Mr. Kinsella responded to this post originally made on Friday, Aug. 4. Look in the comments section

Update 2: More stuff here.

Hi Warren:

I'd post this on your blog, but you don't have a comments section, so there we go.

Anyway, I noticed you pointed towards some kind words for you from Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals.

I also notice you maintain a campaign against Robert McLelland (and to be fair, he against you), for what you see as his "anti-Semitism."

You implore Ted of Canadian Cerberus to remove his link to My Blahg.

However, if I remember correctly, you once called Ms. McMillan a racist for something she posted about some distressed Africans (something about letting nature take its course there, I believe). I'd go back and look at the post to be sure, but you flush your archives.*

* Ms. McMillan doesn't. Here's what she said on April 9, 2005: "Is there a point where we are allowed to stop feeling sympathy for these people, seal off the borders and just let nature take its course?"

She also wrote the following:

Update: To the friends of Warren Kinsella - the best friend Chuck Guite ever had - who are stopping by. This is the reason the thin-skinned Librano has directed you to this post. (which links to a story of World Health Organization workers being attacked for attempting to bring relief to Angolans.)

Warren has been outed as a pro-pollution chemical industry lobbiest in a post lower on the page titled "Whorin' Warren". He doesn't like it very much, and true to the testosterone-challenged technique he is famous for - chooses to misrepresent the content of this post instead.

What a pussy you are, Warren.

To me, it seems strange you would publicize grudging praise from a very right-wing blogger (there was once upon a time when you portrayed yourself as a battler of right-wing knuckle-draggers, remember?) who you once accused of making a racist remark while simultaneously railing about someone as an anti-Semite on what appears to be fairly spurious grounds.*

* See this old MyBlag post for an explanation as to why Kinsella refers to McClelland as "Robert "F*** the Jews" McClelland." You might find Mr. Kinsella's using the remark out of context. But what's a little out of context between enemies?

Anti-Semitism and racism are pretty close together on the scale of malignant human behaviours,  don't you think? So why not dissociate yourself from Ms. McMillan?

Alternatively, was Ms. McMillan right, that you attacked her for reasons other than seeing her original statement as racist?

I look forward to what I presume will be your ad-hominem attack on me.

Regards,

Bill Doskoch

View Article  A question that tortures me

Why am I no worse at online Pong after a long day of work, a few drinks, and eyes that feel sandblasted than I am when I don't have to deal with those presumed disadvantages?

Why?

WHY?!?!

Update

The answer 24 hours ago would be that I couldn't get any worse that I was; I'd hit rock bottom as a Pong player. However, I just played two of my best rounds, again after a long day at work and with just a little alcohol to take the edge off the reflexes.

Maybe I should rethink my thesis. Maybe alcohol and fatigue make me better.

View Article  Tracking where Chicago's gasoline comes from

The Chicago Tribune's Paul Salopek was told it would be impossible to trace where his city's gasoline came from. Fortunately, he didn't listen to that sage advice.

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View Article  Beer-hunting in Czechoslovakia

This NYT story looks at the emerging hobby of beer pilgrimmages.

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View Article  'Hell' for Brit soldiers in Afghanistan

The Beeb's Alister Leithead hangs and yaks with some British troops operating in Helmand province and draws some comparisons with Iraq.

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View Article  Does this juxtaposition say something or not? You be the judge

From Yahoo! News on Saturday evening:

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