{"id":3328,"date":"2005-07-07T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2010-07-13T09:57:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:57:23","slug":"stoicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Stoicism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan’s post on stoicism and the British.<\/a> I like it a lot. Food for thought.<\/p>\n

In fact, he’s got an extensive round-up of links (my favorite I’ve seen so far).<\/p>\n

Here<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n

And this.<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, and Norm Geras <\/a>has a ton of links as well. Like this enraging <\/a>one. Ah yes. The terrorists are “bad” people. Uhm … why the scare quotes? Who on earth doubts the fact that these people are bad? What kind of monster sees ambiguity in the atrocity and tragedy – yes, I said tragedy – today, and still clings for dear life to the scare quotes? You want to talk about COWARDS? I think people who over-use scare quotes (and this isn’t just the media’s problem, or something endemic to one side of the political fence. I see plenty of op-ed columnists and bloggers on the right using contemptuous scare quotes all over the place as well – it makes their work unreadable, in my opinion) are the real cowards, and are unable to make any pronouncements worth listening to about anything.<\/p>\n

And here’s an amazing long round-up of updates<\/a>. Thanks Norm, for being so vigilant with the updates.<\/p>\n

RTG’s post about her time in London as a teenager<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A rousing post:<\/a><\/p>\n

You know, I\u0092m not sure that these people have quite understood us. We\u0092ve just spent 30 years being bombed by a bunch of terrorist nutters. Whatever your views on Irish nationalism, Eire, the rights of the IRA and so on, it is an inescapable truth that there were a series of bombings “on the mainland” and no, it didn\u0092t spread “fear and panic from the north to the south.”
\nNo, not even when 21 people were killed in bombs in pubs, not even when thousands of bombs were dropped on London, death falling from the skies on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

You\u0092ve just not quite understood us, have you? Any politician who even so much as hinted at the idea that this would be a reason to leave Afghanistan or Iraq would be immediately howled down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan’s post on stoicism and the British. I like it a lot. Food for thought. In fact, he’s got an extensive round-up of links (my favorite I’ve seen so far). Here, for example. And this. Oh, and Norm Geras … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19367,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/19367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}