Piss Christ, Madonna with Dung (WAS:This is Why We Fight...)

[Michael Bailey]

Bled Welder  wrote:
> "rather than peeing on Dick Cheney, eg, it'd be immensely more
> satisfying to verbally persuade him to adopt pacifistic positions and
> repudiate his warlike past and - like Nobel - have a care for
> posterity and fund a Cheney Peace Prize, eg."
>
>
> Just updating my Facetious Detection software here.  You jest here, right?
>

no, I wouldn't rule it out!  Never underestimate the power of moral suasion!

I found a Camus quote about decency that fits (not the one I was
looking for, which was a blurb, I think maybe by Sartre, about the
decency of his [Camus's] impulses, on the jacket of a Camus book that
I tried to read but couldn't get a purchase on, but it really has
staying power (like another persistently remembered phrase from
childhood, the ad in the back of Popular Mechanics touting "Basement
Toilet Flushes Up" - but earnest rather than comical) ---

"That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means
of fighting a plague is – common decency."
The Plague

anyway, all this warfare and hostility is a plague, isn't it?

a-and Nobel *did* have a change of heart (after reading a premature
obit, right?) and burnish his image for posterity!

it could happen