Comments on: Those Who Forget Never Knew the Past…

By: josiahbartlette

josiahbartlette — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:07:05 +0000

They don’t need no steenkin card table to play battleship. The world is their card table.

Actually when bush* plays tic tak toe, the chicken beats him and Putin is playing chess.

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:03:23 +0000

Would buying Dana a book to read be mean? How about “One Minute to Midnight”?

By: Blue Texan

Blue Texan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:59:52 +0000

You leave Dana alone.

Meanie.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:20:25 +0000

Did you know that you can watch the whole of Dr Strangelove on YouTube? Well, you can.

That was less than two years after the missile crisis, when we really were afeard. And yet we sat watching that movie, laughing ourselves silly, and it seemed for a bit as though something had lifted, as though the worst was over.

Brilliant thing. Terry Southern wrote the screenplay. My second favourite movie, after The Third Man.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:51:42 +0000

At an interplanetary bar with Dave and Hal.

By: bell

bell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:50:18 +0000

us military is aimed at protecting its own interests and those are being in a position to make war at the drop of a hat with the least provacation.. they will use whatever excuse they can to maintain this position in spite of the fact in flies in the face of most americans.. meanwhile usa foreign policy towards cuba is very backwoods and very immature.. too bad those calling the shots can’t grow up when it comes to cuba…

By: skdadl

skdadl — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:44:46 +0000

I second that thought!

Oh, dear. This is where I came in. And where is Stanley Kubrick when we really need him?

By: DefendOurConstitution

DefendOurConstitution — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:43:29 +0000

Just like nothing connect the SS Maine and Castro Revolution (I know those will be a reach for Dana “PIG Missiles”, but well read emptywheelers should be able to connect the dots).

If someone really needs help just look up Cuban history after Spanish-American War leading up to the ~~corrupt dictatorships~~ democracies that culminated with Fulgencio Batista.

By: Leen

Leen — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:34:26 +0000

We wish you had a press pass too!

By: JimWhite

JimWhite — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:33:40 +0000

I’d like to see us save some money and drama this time and avoid blockading Cuba again/further. Let’s just set up a card table, buy a game of Battleship, and let Bush and Putin have at it.