Comments on: Signs http://tleaves.com/2004/06/23/signs/ Creativity x Technology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Goob http://tleaves.com/2004/06/23/signs/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Goob Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:04:56 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=126#comment-407 Somewhat sideways to the point, but there's a group here who have a current project of running around town and documenting various signage: http://markstroup.com/pittsburghsigns/ Worth a look. Somewhat sideways to the point, but there’s a group here who have a current project of running around town and documenting various signage:

http://markstroup.com/pittsburghsigns/

Worth a look.

]]> By: Derrick http://tleaves.com/2004/06/23/signs/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Derrick Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:08:10 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=126#comment-406 If they'd been a precisely chosen million, it might have. But I don't think that's the answer. Other reading suggests to me that there were several bad decisions made earlier which made the quagmire in Vietnam drag on much longer with less success than it might have otherwise. If they’d been a precisely chosen million, it might have. But I don’t think that’s the answer. Other reading suggests to me that there were several bad decisions made earlier which made the quagmire in Vietnam drag on much longer with less success than it might have otherwise.

]]> By: peterb http://tleaves.com/2004/06/23/signs/comment-page-1/#comment-405 peterb Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:40:46 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=126#comment-405 Well, yeah, obviously I disagree with their positions thoroughly, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to sound all deep and meaningful and analytical and stuff. It's a sickness. In all seriousness, the point is not "look at this folk wisdom from the masses!" but rather "look at how the right-wing position in the street differes from the right-wing position in our government." I also admit to a morbid fascination with the myth that somehow, things aren't going that well just because we're not being _mean enough_. We saw this with the "Rambo" revisionism of Vietnam in the 1980s: "They [liberal politicians, hippies, etc] didn't _let_ us win!" We killed 2 million people in Vietnam. The idea that there are people who seriously think that if only we had killed a few million more things would have magically gotten better is somewhat hypnotic. Well, yeah, obviously I disagree with their positions thoroughly, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to sound all deep and meaningful and analytical and stuff.

It’s a sickness.

In all seriousness, the point is not “look at this folk wisdom from the masses!” but rather “look at how the right-wing position in the street differes from the right-wing position in our government.”

I also admit to a morbid fascination with the myth that somehow, things aren’t going that well just because we’re not being _mean enough_. We saw this with the “Rambo” revisionism of Vietnam in the 1980s: “They [liberal politicians, hippies, etc] didn’t _let_ us win!” We killed 2 million people in Vietnam. The idea that there are people who seriously think that if only we had killed a few million more things would have magically gotten better is somewhat hypnotic.

]]> By: Derrick http://tleaves.com/2004/06/23/signs/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Derrick Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:08:53 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=126#comment-404 Sure, but they're bozos. It's hard to take anything on that sign seriously after you've seen what was there before. Sure, but they’re bozos. It’s hard to take anything on that sign seriously after you’ve seen what was there before.

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