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2005-10-22 Home Front: WoT

WSJ takes on Sully: In Praise of Fake Menstrual Blood

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Posted by anon 2005-10-22 08:36|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And Sully will get his panties in a bunch yet again with the story mentioned above, regardless of its veracity.

Posted by Raj 2005-10-22 10:36|| 2005-10-22 10:36|| Front Page Top

Posted by .com 2005-10-22 10:40|| 2005-10-22 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Com - that's a keeper.
Didn't realize they were so fragile. Time to bring out the supersoakers.

Posted by 3dc 2005-10-22 10:44|| 2005-10-22 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 To a mature man, menstruation is not a horror.

Sullivan's not a mature man.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-22 12:36|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-22 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Sullivan's not a mature man

Can you say Catcher? Caught too many balls to the chin, apparently

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-22 14:24|| 2005-10-22 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 As far as unnerving goes, remember that only the US military is obsessive about using only psychological means to interrogate. All of the complaints heard, every one, involves only psychological means.

You will not now, nor most likely ever, hear of the means used by other US agencies. Not torture, as you would think of it, because torture doesn't work, but "other means". My nickname for it is "The Rat Program".

The Rat Program is purely imaginitive. It is based on the idea that the technology of interrogation, like other technologies, have improved markedly since WWII. Sap gloves, sodium pentathol, and electric shocks are antiques. What *might* be used today? There are great possibilities...

We know that electrodes in the brain can stimulate involuntary actions and thoughts. We have microphones the size of a pinhead, and batteries that could power them for months. Explosives the volume of a quarter, but as powerful as a pound of C4.

We have advanced, drug-induced hypnosis. GPS and RFID technologies. Neuro-drugs that can do astounding things: endorphine blockers, hallucinogens, mood enhancers.

Few jihadis have much real information. They are an ignorant lot. And yet, left to their own devices, they might gravitate towards those that matter. They might become involuntary spies, assassins and traitors. We might re-write their mind to make them a dedicated anti-terrorist.

We might even put an "off" switch in them, for when they are no longer needed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-22 14:46|| 2005-10-22 14:46|| Front Page Top

#7 And we can't cure the common cold?

Posted by Angoluter Thaling7722 2005-10-22 15:07|| 2005-10-22 15:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Any shrinks want to comment on Sullian's obsession with Menstrual blood?

Or the Islamic obsession with it?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-10-22 15:35|| 2005-10-22 15:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Sully is a bath house whore who would out anyone if they didn't take an oath to promote homodumb.

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-22 15:47|| 2005-10-22 15:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Waste of effort and pixels. I don't read Sullivan anymore but why waste time lamenting his change and trying to psycho analyze him. I've read Jonah Goldberg, James Taranto and dozens of bloggers trying to dissect Sulli's transformation.

Taranto implies a lack of maturity and insecurity. Well I say that obsessing about someone else's obsessions is also a sign of insecurity. Forget about Sulli. Making Abu Ghraib the central theme of the War on Terror is ridiculous. But if Sulli insists this is THE central issue, than leave him be. There are still many pundits and public figures who are far worse and far more deserving of attack.

I refuse to read one more sentence about this silly little intra-pundit class scorning END OF DISCUSSION

Posted by John in Tokyo 2005-10-22 21:58|| 2005-10-22 21:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Apparently odd menstrual fetish for a gay male, no?

Posted by Hupitle Snomoth2094 2005-10-22 23:24|| 2005-10-22 23:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Anonymoose, that's more than a tad bit too scary for me.

(This does not in any way mean that I disagree with the WSJ take, because I don't.)

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-10-22 23:24|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-10-22 23:24|| Front Page Top

#13 I used to enjoy Sullivan, back in the late 90's early 2000 - before AIDS dulled his intellect.

Andy became bitter and angry because his goal was for acceptance, approval and to be seen as "normal". When it became clear that most Americans don't support gays in the military, homosexual marriage or gays in the Boy Scouts and think that advertising for bare-back sex in local papers a wee bit sleazy (he was outed by a democratic homosexual) his bitterness grew. Andrew is a conservative, but ultimately, everything is about acceptance of homosexuality to Andrew. He dislike Clinton because he backed down on the gays in the military and did not do enough - so he enjoyed his fall from grace and threw peanuts from the peanut gallery. When Bush II came around, I think Andy had high hopes that the "big tent", Log Cabin Republicans, etc. meant the time was right - the acceptance he so craved would finally be his. When it did not, and it became clear that the support just wasn't there, he turned his rage to the Bush administration with even more venom than he had for Clinton.

He's a bitter old queen.

Posted by Grush Tholuger7316 2005-10-22 23:42|| 2005-10-22 23:42|| Front Page Top

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