In These Times

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• • 14 Dec 05
  • 11:27 am

  I have great respect for KV, having read a lot of the things he has published over the years and finding them to be, for the most part, well-written, sane and funny. But it must be hard to find any humor in this, because it's so very serious: the fallout from the bad guesses being made now will echo, distort, intensify and riccochet around our world for generations. Anyone who sees even a fraction of the bigger picture -- there are other people in this thing, too -- understands this. Anyone with even an atrophied ability to self-reflect sees that an …

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• • 15 Dec 05
  • 9:48 am

  On my previous comments and wiley's response. Humor is a good way to defuse conflict when discussing deadly serious matters. KV recognizes this, as did Twain. If people on opposite sides of the table in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Palestine, Sri Lanka and other places had found common ground in the dark humor of their predicament, how much closer to resolution do you think they would be by now?

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