Comments on: New Look, Deeper Thoughts

By: heather

heather — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:12:31 +0000

I think the new look at pajamasmedia is cleaner, and therefore more accessible.

however, I want that pop-out thingy that happens when I hover over Phyllis Chesler’s photo…

By: jaimeshawn

jaimeshawn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:19:14 +0000

PS: Awesome letter by Chetwynd.

By: jaimeshawn

jaimeshawn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:36:46 +0000

I had hoped Obama would be a shallow incompetent like Mayor Nagin, or a floundering Washington DC outsider like Jimmey Carter, or a sleazy hustler like Kwame… The country can survive men like that, and it provides an opportunity for leadership to emerge in the House and Senate.

I hate the thought that Obama is a racist schmuck, because I really don’t like the idea of voting for McCain, but it looks like I have no choice.

By: ic

ic — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:34:45 +0000

The new web layout is more “professional” .i.e. generic and cold, less friendly and less welcoming. Please don’t try to look like the big boys, it is much better to be distinctive and carve out your own niche. Your role model in spirit should be Dudge, not NYT.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:16:22 +0000

yes, a temp glitch. Please try again.

By: Anthony (Los Angeles)

Anthony (Los Angeles) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:45:03 +0000

Roger,

I tried emailing a friend a link to the Charlie Martin piece on the record industry, but he hit a registration wall. Is this a glitch? I don’t recall ever having to register at Pajamas to read articles.

By: GringoTex

GringoTex — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:12:35 +0000

Roger, you have truly shown tolerance and endorsement of diversity by accepting feedback from a die-hard Celtics fan.(by virtue of New England origin, never a Mavs fan. Unless maybe Mark Cuban hired Bill Russell as coach and/or GM. Which is not likely.)

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:39:00 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, GringoTex. We’ll look into it. Obviously, this was not intentional.

By: Jamie Irons

Jamie Irons — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:37:49 +0000

Roger,

Nina and I were talking just yesterday about the very subject Mr. Chetwynd so brilliantly covers.

For a long time in our work with people we have promoted the notion (we may have appropriated it from Castaneda’s Don Juan, or some similar dubious source) that there are two types of people in the world: victims and warriors. The latter aren’t necessarily fighters, like soldiers or Marines, but are at the least people who don’t submit, who are not craven.

Demagogues like “Reverend” Wright try to keep people in a passive, victim mode, and those listening to the sermons are always (said to be) victims of some powerful group, against whom they are urged to “fight,” but the “fighting” is purely a passive construct, for if they were really to attack the sources of their failure, they would cease to be victims, and would be of no further use to Wright or, alas, to Mr. Obama.

Jamie Irons

By: photoncourier.blogspot.com

photoncourier.blogspot.com — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:36:25 +0000

Good essay. Reminds me of an experience Chetwynd had when planning a possible film about the Dieppe operation in WWII.