[Timesink]

For those of you who were rightfully disgusted by this cheap bimbo's little whine, this should be a welcome read for you. And you really should read James Lileks's column every day anyway.

[Timesink]

PING!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Luke 22:36

“But now,” he said, “take your money and a traveler’s bag. And if you don’t have a sword, sell your clothes and buy one!"

Reckon she could expand on this a little more??

[fporretto]

Sadly, this is why leftists are more valued in the op-ed world than conservatives and libertarians.

We of the Right tend -- I say tend -- to adopt a rational approach to the things that interest us. We amass evidence, propound theories, look for test cases, and so forth. The left slathers you with emotional appeals. It shows you maimed civilians, blasted villages, the sorrowing eyes of starving orphans. It asks you to go no farther, no who-what-when-where, and especially no why. It just lets the gruesome images work on you -- and here's the awful truth, friends: they do work.

Lileks's column is a perfect dissection of the drippy, hubristic Salter piece. It's in his best style. And it shows the two assets that conservative op-ed writers bring to their trade: rational facility and the ability to use sarcasm. But I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that the typical reader, presented with both, would be more strongly affected by the Salter column. If he were "on the fence" about the war effort, it might well sway him.

It must be possible for the Right to harness this powerful persuasive force -- but very few Right-inclined opinion writers have tried, and still fewer have succeeded. Perhaps they feel it's beneath them. What a pity.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit the Palace Of Reason: http://palaceofreason.com

[Frances_Marion]

"Of course, let us all remember the parable of the Moneychangers in the temple, who all got up and left meekly after Jesus asked them to go."

ROFLMAO! This guy is great! Of course, the San Frantic Chronicle is easy to mock, but this guy totally reams this stupid bim. I'll bet she's hardly even cracked a bible, yet she can speak for Jesus, huh...I love idiots who relegate defending oneself with vengeance...what do these people think happens when you run out of cheeks to turn? It's a "3 strikes you're out" parable, and the islamo-fascist terrorists' batting average has just fallen to .000! Thanks, funny stuff....

[Fzob]

For you amusement

Merry Christmas

[Fzob]

I wasn’t aware that Christianity had chosen “Suicide as Painless” as its showcase hymm for the 21st century.

LOL and bump.

[wimpycat]

Okay, Saltus - you have the floor. TELL US WHAT YOU WOULD DO. If she believes it is possible to dismantle al Qaeda and, say, remove Iraq’s nuclear program in a way that does not involve deliberate and systemic violence, tell us how.

I'll second that! All the nay-sayers can do is point out problems--they never offer solutions; that is, they never offer real world solutions.

[Fintan]

This is hysterical.

But what never ceases to astound me is how leftists shamelessly invoke the name of Jesus Christ, then turn around without missing a beat and denounce Christianity.

[Vinnie]

In an excellent piece filled with humor this one is a gem

, a charming rogue who attends Easter service with his family then nips back to the office so the intern can roll away the stone and make little Elvis rise from the dead - are much more interesting, because they are flawed, and thus human, and some folks regard damaged people as more genuine than those with a handle on themselves.

[dighton]

She blowed up REAL good!

[Incorrigible]

Thanks for the link!

The Newark Star Ledger used to carry his column years ago.

[Doctor Raoul]

All liberals think they're God. That's why they're always angry. We don't follow their divine decrees.

[Doctor Raoul]

ssalter@sfchronicle.com

[StanFran]

Salter was a perfectly competent sports reporter. When she moved from the newspaper's toy department she reached her level of incompetence.

[mountaineer]

Vengeance is never the answer to "What would Jesus do?" Especially vengeance that masquerades as "justice."

Auggghh, what a stupid git! The total annihilation of bin Laden, all his forces and all Islamic terrorists would "do justice." Vengeance has nothing to do with it.

[Ahban]

What is she gonna do when the Grapes of Wrath are trod, and the blood gets as high as a horse's bridle?

I reject her card-board cutout version of Jesus for the True and Living one in the Bible.

[xm177e2]

Thanks for posting this, I skimmed that column this morning and it turned my stomach.

[rockfish59]

BLOOD-MAD VENGEANCE!
(i like the sound of that)
nuke san francisco now!

[Kevin Curry]

I reckon Saltus is OWK's (et al) kind of Christian: feeble, feckless, simpering, powerless, and wholly inoffensive.

Yes, there is form of Christianity that is tolerated by atheists, and Saltus has it pegged perfectly.

[Roberts]

For anyone who doesn't know, Stephanie Salter began her stint with the San Francisco Examiner (since merged with the Chronicle) in the 1970s as a sports columnist who dove head first into the controversy of the day -- women in the locker room. Having solved that international controversy, she now poses as a columnist on the editorial page qualified to speak for Jesus Christ himself. This is exactly the type of pap that caused me to cancel the San Francisco daily rags years ago.