Decision ‘08

Strange Bedfellows Department

Mickey Kaus defending Ann Coulter? Believe it…

1 Dennis Says:
April 20th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I think she’s a camera-hogging pain in the rear more interested in starting fights than actually advancing ideas, but dang, based on that excerpt, she’s got a point. I would quibble with the notion that vulgarity is the problem. It’s more like boneheadedness to me. But I guess you could argue the two are often the same.

I mean, ther are victims who do everything right and still are caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it probably doesn’t help us as a society not to acknowledge when victims brought on, or at least exacerbated, their predicament through monumentally stupid decisions.
2 too many steves Says:
April 20th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
We have all made bad decisions and done foolish things, doing so is part of being human. It is not incongruous to acknowledge that these people (Halloway, St. Guillen, the Duke players & their accuser) have made bad decisions, fatal in the first two, while having tremendous sympathy for them and their families.

Perhaps, and I suspect this is Ann Coulter’s point, if we were to focus on both (acknowledgement of bad decisions & sympathy) we might reduce the incidence of these tragedies.