I predict that, as the last atheist intellectual in what used to be Western Civilization gets dragged away from his computer keyboard by the _mutaween_, he will have been in the process of writing a screed denouncing: (a) Zionist imperialism, (b) Christian fundamentalism, (c) racist Tea Party bigotry, (d) Sarah Palin, or some improbable combination of all four topics.
Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face is a much more common phenomenon than reason would suggest.
I predict that, as the last atheist intellectual in what used to be Western Civilization gets dragged away from his computer keyboard by the _mutaween_, he will have been in the process of writing a screed denouncing: (a) Zionist imperialism, (b) Christian fundamentalism, (c) racist Tea Party bigotry, (d) Sarah Palin, or some improbable combination of all four topics.
ReplyDeleteCutting off one's nose to spite one's face is a much more common phenomenon than reason would suggest.