Comments on: Happy Counterterrorism Day! http://glyphpress.com/talk/2007/happy-counterterrorism-day/ the alien writing of designer joshua a.c. newman Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ibn Warraq http://glyphpress.com/talk/2007/happy-counterterrorism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2597 Ibn Warraq Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:25:39 +0000 http://glyphpress.com/talk/index.php/2007/11/05/happy-counterterrorism-day/#comment-2597 Piece of advice, don't ever trust anything written by someone with the last name Horton. They're all pompous idiots and they're incredibly clumsy when it comes to computers. Piece of advice, don’t ever trust anything written by someone with the last name Horton.

They’re all pompous idiots and they’re incredibly clumsy when it comes to computers.

]]> By: Soren http://glyphpress.com/talk/2007/happy-counterterrorism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2593 Soren Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:56:19 +0000 http://glyphpress.com/talk/index.php/2007/11/05/happy-counterterrorism-day/#comment-2593 Interesting to read alongside Orwell's <a href="http://orwell.ru/library/articles/My_Country/english/e_mcrol" rel="nofollow">My Country, Right or Left</a>. <i>Patriotism has nothing to do with conservatism. It is devotion to something that is changing but is felt to be mystically the same, like the devotion of the ex-White Bolshevik to Russia.</i> I am not, in general, a particularly sentimental man. But Orwell always makes me drip a bit. Interesting to read alongside Orwell’s My Country, Right or Left.

Patriotism has nothing to do with conservatism. It is devotion to something that is changing but is felt to be mystically the same, like the devotion of the ex-White Bolshevik to Russia.

I am not, in general, a particularly sentimental man. But Orwell always makes me drip a bit.

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