Comments on: Is Al Gore Weird? http://donklephant.com/2006/05/29/is-al-gore-weird/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:38:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Don Lapre Lover http://donklephant.com/2006/05/29/is-al-gore-weird/comment-page-1/#comment-117489 Don Lapre Lover Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:26:50 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/05/29/is-al-gore-weird/#comment-117489 "Most normal people need to feel a sense of order and comfort, and until the Dems come up with a better way of presenting it, the Republicans are the comfort party" is a falacy if I ever heard one. the GOP is im more of an upheavel than the DEM's ever were. WOW! I want to get up an a soapbox bad but I'll leave it at this. laura Don Lapre Lover www.lauraglydaband.com laura@lauraglydaband.com “Most normal people need to feel a sense of order and comfort, and until the Dems come up with a better way of presenting it, the Republicans are the comfort party” is a falacy if I ever heard one. the GOP is im more of an upheavel than the DEM’s ever were. WOW! I want to get up an a soapbox bad but I’ll leave it at this.

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]]> By: Donklephant » Blog Archive » “Conservative” Doesn’t Mean What You Think: A Guest Post By Jack Whelan http://donklephant.com/2006/05/29/is-al-gore-weird/comment-page-1/#comment-30727 Donklephant » Blog Archive » “Conservative” Doesn’t Mean What You Think: A Guest Post By Jack Whelan Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:17:59 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/05/29/is-al-gore-weird/#comment-30727 [...] Many of our commenters on this post (at AmbivaBlog) took issue with the spirited defense of New Deal-rooted American social democracy expressed by Jack Whelan at After the Future. In my opinion Jack is hands down one of the best thinkers and writers on the Web; I’m particularly blown away by his “post-secular” take on religious tradition and spirituality. While I don’t agree with every point of his politics, I am grateful to him for making me question what I fear is fast becoming a knee-jerk or herd-instinct libertarianism (is that an oxymoron?!) in much of the blogosphere. I hope you will read, consider, engage, and discuss. ~ amba [...] [...] Many of our commenters on this post (at AmbivaBlog) took issue with the spirited defense of New Deal-rooted American social democracy expressed by Jack Whelan at After the Future. In my opinion Jack is hands down one of the best thinkers and writers on the Web; I’m particularly blown away by his “post-secular” take on religious tradition and spirituality. While I don’t agree with every point of his politics, I am grateful to him for making me question what I fear is fast becoming a knee-jerk or herd-instinct libertarianism (is that an oxymoron?!) in much of the blogosphere. I hope you will read, consider, engage, and discuss. ~ amba [...]

]]> By: DosPeros http://donklephant.com/2006/05/29/is-al-gore-weird/comment-page-1/#comment-29697 DosPeros Tue, 30 May 2006 02:31:31 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/05/29/is-al-gore-weird/#comment-29697 Thanks, Amba. Interesting stuff. <blockquote>“unfettering the forces that will return us to brutal conditions more typical of the laisser faire late 19th century.�</blockquote> That might be a little dramatics, but I agree the plight of the corporate wage slave is an increasingly Hobsian existence. Thanks, Amba. Interesting stuff.

“unfettering the forces that will return us to brutal conditions more typical of the laisser faire late 19th century.�

That might be a little dramatics, but I agree the plight of the corporate wage slave is an increasingly Hobsian existence.

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