tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post113941045010856353..comments2024-03-29T04:15:17.481-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Sharpen Your Pencils!Charles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1139670694874249382006-02-11T10:11:00.000-05:002006-02-11T10:11:00.000-05:00I didn't mean to be cryptic.I am just an optimist ...I didn't mean to be cryptic.<BR/>I am just an optimist by nature and I am trying to find some good to come out of the cartoon affair.<BR/>The best possible scenario is that it simply gets people talking.<BR/>Sounds vague; it is.<BR/>In practice it seems to me that the issue is to confront the Islamic bullies forcefully without further inflaming them. Republishing the cartoons is the natural Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1139496324599018552006-02-09T09:45:00.000-05:002006-02-09T09:45:00.000-05:00i am not sure if i agree whether it is civil war (...i am not sure if i agree whether it is civil war (the masses don't seem to turn on each other but have well confined their hatred and destruction to scandinavian/western countries, so far). and the "nothing much at all" is of course so difficult to pin down. the toxic mix of an aggressive, intolerant, all-too-easily excited mind-set in the middle east (turned that way not the least for lack of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1139486283425578642006-02-09T06:58:00.000-05:002006-02-09T06:58:00.000-05:00I think it's a little bit of everything and nothin...I think it's a little bit of everything and nothing, jfl. I wouldn't be the first time a civil war broke out over nothing much at all.Mark Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18403713669935706127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1139459521153246052006-02-08T23:32:00.000-05:002006-02-08T23:32:00.000-05:00anonymous is cryptic. i myself wonder if "Sharpen ...anonymous is cryptic. i myself wonder if "Sharpen Your Pencils" is a vailed call to violence. And if "Make Art, Not War" (or "Draw Cartoons, Don't Riot") is really a sufficient answer. what's the message here, anyway? are the radicals to blame or the publishers of amature (reader-contributed) cartoons? or the imams that took more cartoons on a tour of the middle east (this time muhammed with a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1139455253252645262006-02-08T22:20:00.000-05:002006-02-08T22:20:00.000-05:00It may all be for the best i.e. these "frank discu...It may all be for the best i.e. these "frank discussion" in the language of Foggy Bottom.<BR/>I am optimistic that out of these "frank discussions" will come a whole new way of relating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com