CP has reported back on Theory of Justice: the Musical! Fans of Rawls and/or musical theater should check it out.
Otherwise, the last I heard from him he was stranded on a sidetrack in Doncaster (which is not far from Wath upon Dearne, if you need help placing it). Ah, travel… We’re going to get together at the Vassaregiate RR (his coinage) to go over the new system after Catholic Charlie’s meeting. In person is the best way to handle things.
Meanwhile the whole playing out of the Syria business is PF 101 for Sept-Oct. Simply change the word “chemical” to “nuclear” and absent attacking one’s own citizens, you’ve pretty much got it. The thing is, the debate mind’s grand thinking of links of major impact seems to melt away in reality of the UK getting antsy, the US going all MYOB, Putin looking resigned, etc. I like cases where it goes action X leads to Y leads to Z leads to: IMPACT (you know, like nuclear annihilation, always popular among the high school cognoscenti), not cases where it goes, Thinking about maybe taking action X leads to thinking about maybe taking action Y leads to not thinking about action after all, etc. Or maybe that summarizes the cases the Pfffters should present, the reality of the bumpy road to doing nothing: we shouldn’t do it because of inertia. Obama needs congressional approval before acting, for instance, from a congress that couldn’t get its act together to issue a hall pass much less an agreement to launch a military attack on a state that is not attacking us, or even threatening to attack us (unless we attack them—yeah, right)? Ah, politics.
The upcoming Labor Day weekend is the beginning of the end of the non-debate season. As I said, there’s the NYCFL and Vassaregiate RR, then a weekend off, then Yale, then a weekend off, then Thanksgiving. On your mark, get set…
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