I have to admit that I am very impressed by the amount of respect (or is it tolerance) that the moderators have in regards to people posting their personal beliefs, no matter how nutty they are, in this forum. I cannot tell you how many forums I am unable to post to because I wrote some comment about animal rights or something like that, no matter how respectful I tried to be. I also believe that there is room for this in a forum as long as comments don't become personal attacks. On example I see all the time is that I have a feeling that this forum is at least sponsored by Northerner and yet I see complaints about Northerner all over the place. On the other hand, try to posts pro snus comments in an anti tobacco forum and I doubt they will be there for long.
Snuson Rocks!
In most forums I'd be railing at vegans but here I feel like we can just put that aside and agree on our admiration of the finest veggie..........Tobacco. It's funny, but one writer ( Peter Brimelowe?) opined that society had become less civil with the waning of tobacco use. Bumming smokes and lights gave people something to talk about and something in common. Certainly, Snus has the same effect in a healthier fashion.
I cannot tell you how many forums I am unable to post to because I wrote some comment about animal rights or something like that, no matter how respectful I tried to be.
Although, to be honest, you posting to the "Beef Council's" recipe forum may have been in bad taste.
I've been thinking of this for years. I swore I saw it on TV when I was little, but it just didn't make any sense thinking about it. I guess I could have searched, but I didn't care that much :^D
(born 1954 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American author, political commentator, and conservative polemicist. His writing features a blend of quotations, hyperbole, insults, ad hominems, sarcasm and humor; often culminating in editorial critiques of the political left. Such literary techniques have allowed him to make "an art form out of mixing frustration with ridicule."[1]
Review and writing style
Review and writing style
Author Rolf Potts in a review of Fontova's Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him for World Hum, notes that "taken in selective doses", the book puts "some well-placed holes in Che’s presumed humanism and military competence."[3] However, Potts laments that what "is meant to be a polemic against Guevara’s t-shirt-certified mythology" actually ends up showing "how Che’s reputation benefits from the myopic fury and misguided political influence of those who hate him the most."[3] Pott's goes on to critique the book's "slightly schizophrenic tone" for meandering off into subject matter that has little to do with the book’s premise, while positing that the books seems "less an indictment of Guevara than the New York Times or John F. Kennedy.[3] Ultimately, Potts states, the book is "less about Che Guevara than the King Lear-style resentments of the Cuban-Americans who hate him — and the effectiveness of its argument suffers as a result."[3]
Journalist and Buenos Aires bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires Michael Casey, reviewed Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him in his 2009 book Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image, and came away with similar sentiments to Potts.[1] Casey describes Fontova's prose as a marriage of Ann Coulter with the Gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson, remarking that "he basically yells at his readers, mixing a sarcastic wit with a touch of self-deprecation until it is overwhelmed by disdain for his opponents."[1] Lastly, Casey observes that Fontova often "lathers himself into a rage" when it comes to the issue of Che Guevara, noting that his barrage of hyperbole leads him to describe Guevara as an "assassin", "sadist", "bumbler", "fool", and "whimpering-sniveling-blubbering coward" who is "revered by millions of imbeciles."[1] Other invective descriptions that Fontova often lobs against Guevara is that he was "shallow", "boorish", "epically stupid", and "a fraud"; whom Fontova considers to be a "murdering swine", an "intellectual vacuum", and an "insufferable Argentine jackass."[4]
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