4 Responses to ““Never,” He Cried, “Never!””

1. 
   Mickey Mephistopheles
   February 6th, 2008 | 4:03 pm

   Oh, stop it; you’re acting like non-voting Evangelicals are something bad. People who want to teach delusional creationist fairy tales in science classes, or who believe in a deity that will smite America because of where I might choose to put my cock, are either not intelligent or sane enough to make informed political decisions.

   My hope would sometime be to have a country where everyone could participate in the political process in a meaningful manner. The feedback process in a functional democratic system makes everyone happier. However, we have a corporate media that has the power to effectively erase candidates that don’t fit its owners’ agendas (Kucinich, any Green Party candidate, etc.) We also have an educational system that is unable to inform every child in this country that it’s the understanding of scientific principles, not God’s will, that has made the general standard of living rise since the Enlightenment.

   Until everyone is on the same page in terms of general scientific, civic and cultural literacy, we cannot depend on democratic process to be anything other than a mechanism through which elites with an effective propaganda arm can frighten or manipulate semi-literate boobs to do their part to perpetuate this sham.

2. 
   Thomas Belknap
   February 6th, 2008 | 5:56 pm

   I think it’s a pretty bad thing when anybody in this country can be so easily led as to believe some of the crazy horseshit they believe, much less for them to throw away their sovereignty like that.

   But really, I’m just waxing poetic as I watch the hard right self-destruct. One should never make hasty assumptions about defeated opponents, but it does seem to me that the hard liners (or dead enders, if you prefer) are going back into the shadows and those supposed power brokers are being shown up for the irrelevant hacks they are. It’s even better when, as in the case of Dobson, they do it themselves and spare the rest of us the trouble. It’s very Tolkien.

3. 
   Douglas Cornish
   July 22nd, 2008 | 5:49 am

   You have the lyrics wrong, as does your source.  They should be;

   “Never”, I cried. “Never shall ye get me alive
   Ye rotten hound of the Burnie Brae”.

   Well, I snapped for a blade and a Claymore cut and thrust
   And I fell down before him ‘round his feet.

   Aye, a roar he cried! Frae the bottom of his heart
   That I would nay fall but dead, dead as a can by a feat deah…

   And the wind cried Mary.

4. 
   Thomas Belknap
   July 22nd, 2008 | 8:57 am

   Thanks for the correction, Doug.

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