Silflay Hraka

Eric Muller’s phone is friends with drug dealers! Okay, I have no evidence to back that up whatsoever. In fact, I have strong reason to believe Eric (and his phone) are not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever. But he got a wrong number voicemail the other day from somebody who probably does live in the drugs & violence underground. It was a very funny and desperate voicemail. Hell of a wrong number, there, Sparky. Eric asksif anybody else has had a similar experience. Rather than threadjack his comments with a long cellphone wrong number tale involving drug dealers, I?ll tell it here.

Many years ago I moved to Washington D.C. for work. I bought a new cell phone, since back in the day, you couldn?t keep the same number for life, unless you wanted to pay roaming charges for life (while walking 10 miles uphill to grad school, each way). Besides, my new phone only weighed about 9 pounds and fit into an Alice Medium pack, unlike the 13 pounder that I had to carry around in it’s own dialysis machine bag before that.

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Between Andrew Sullivan, who claims to support the war in Iraq/on terror, yet constantly carps over the Bush administration’s prosecution of it, and, well, me.

Andrew worries incessantly about what Muslims think of us. I think Muslims should worry incessantly about what we think of them. It strikes me as an altogether more preferable situation.

At the very least, it would seem that worrying about the finer feelings about the adherents of a religion who are wont to riot in the streets over the physical treatment of a holy book of myths is beneath the citizenry of a secular, humanist republic.

The very fact that such riots occur should indicate that an attempted dialog with the participants in such would be worthless.

All in all, is it so much to ask that Andrew regard Muslims with the same degree of contempt he holds for fundamentalist Christians?

Update: It’s a start