Comment on Chronicles of Zhdanovism by Sarah AB
Just returned to this piece to say that I took your last paragraph to heart, Flesh is Grass, and resisted the temptation to post something further about Michael Ezra’s Hasbara video on HP, and blogged...
View ArticleComment on Fire Gospel by fleshisgrass
If Fire Gospel is anything to go by, definitely. Faber tickles and pinches – keep the old deep vein thrombosis at bay. I’m enjoying the telly adaptation of Crimson Petal too. Ersatz, maybe, and I...
View ArticleComment on Deciding about Alternative Vote by man in the street
Hey, who are you to tell me I have to vote? I’ll make that decision cheers. Seeing as there isn’t a party that I wish to see in power, I’ll pass this time. You vote for whichever deceitful tools you...
View ArticleComment on Deciding about Alternative Vote by Isca Stieglitz
This is great and glad I stumbled across it via ‘Bob from Brockley’. A written account of what’s what; no shared on Facebook. Thanks F.i.G!
View ArticleComment on Deciding about Alternative Vote by Isca Stieglitz
Oops! Typo, meant to write ‘now shared…’
View ArticleComment on South West Coast Path – Burton Bradstock to Dartmouth by The...
[...] an otherwise excellent post about our recent walk on the South West Cost Path fleshisgrass has missed out on some of the whimsical aspects of the trip. To jog her memory I [...]
View ArticleComment on South West Coast Path – Burton Bradstock to Dartmouth by papanomicron
Oi flesh here is some stuff you missed out! http://papanomicron.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/the-whimsy-flesh-forgot/
View ArticleComment on South West Coast Path – Burton Bradstock to Dartmouth by Isca...
Stunning, stunning, stunning. My folks live in the region along with lots of old friends – Cullompton, Plymtree, Whimple. I love going down to see them, walking Dartmoor, down to the beaches. Used to...
View ArticleComment on South West Coast Path – Burton Bradstock to Dartmouth by TNC
Great pics! Enjoy your holiday.
View ArticleComment on South West Coast Path – Burton Bradstock to Dartmouth by fleshisgrass
Hello TNC. Hope you are well.
View ArticleComment on South West Coast Path – Burton Bradstock to Dartmouth by fleshisgrass
It’s a beautiful part of the world isn’t it.
View ArticleComment on South West Coast Path – Burton Bradstock to Dartmouth by TNC
Very well. We had twins a few months ago. Finally finished my PhD and landed a f/t academic position. Am in the planning stages of launching a new blog with a colleague. I will hopefully be out there...
View ArticleComment on South West Coast Path – Burton Bradstock to Dartmouth by fleshisgrass
Twins, wow, double nappies. Identical? Loads of attention if so. Great news about the job, too. Look forward to meeting you – give me plenty of notice, I want to make sure I’m around.
View ArticleComment on In defence of a broader definition of antisemitism by SnoopyTheGoon
“Is there any reason to distinguish between antisemitism on the one hand and the persistent excusing or minimisation of antisemitism, on the other?” Being of a pedestrian practical mind, I can offer...
View ArticleComment on In defence of a broader definition of antisemitism by fleshisgrass
No. No. No jokes about violence. (Why is everybody posing as a militant thug these days? When did this become cool?)
View ArticleComment on In defence of a broader definition of antisemitism by fleshisgrass
To address the substance of your suggestion, if he were a non-Jooish apologist for an antisemite, should he be, er, reprimanded in another way again?
View ArticleComment on In defence of a broader definition of antisemitism by SnoopyTheGoon
Ach, FiG, even for fear of being banned forever from your place I cannot reject the vision of possible violence in some cases as attractive. As for the substance of your question: no, I am not a bigot...
View ArticleComment on In defence of a broader definition of antisemitism by fleshisgrass
“I cannot reject the vision of possible violence in some cases as attractive.” Well me neither, but only when it’s too late for politics. Until then I’m fed up of this militant talk. It’s a really good...
View ArticleComment on In defence of a broader definition of antisemitism by TNC
You mention Kay “pointed out that Jews weren’t so much at the centre of conspiracy theories any longer.” I am not so convinced. Anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are rampant in the Muslim world. Some of...
View ArticleComment on In defence of a broader definition of antisemitism by fleshisgrass
TNC, yes, true. I think Kay was focusing on a certain type of U.S. conspiracism. Looking at the toc, he seems to avoid the anti-Jewish theories in the Muslim world (note that he works for the...
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