1 minute of silence
March 26, 2007 10:17 AM   Subscribe

you'd almost sympathize with chomsky, wouldn't you, when amid a sea of freedom of information everybody knows the nfl star turned national hero for walking into friendly fire, but basically no-one has ever heard about the 600,000+ iraqis who died violently since the start of the war. putting this into perspective, that represents 2.5% of the country's population. going by the best available estimate, that would be 7.5 million us citizens. that's the metropolitan areas of houston and denver combined. i'm off to see isfahan before anyone finds weapons of mass distraction there too. way to go, america.
posted by coyroy (15 comments total)

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Ahh! My eyes! Paragraphs! Punctuation!
posted by bitmage at 10:18 AM on March 26, 2007


PMS (Posts of Mass Suckaction)
posted by DU at 10:19 AM on March 26, 2007


I wouldn't mind giving up Houston and Denver.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 10:19 AM on March 26, 2007


Ahh! My eyes! Paragraphs! Punctuation!

Point!
posted by pardonyou? at 10:20 AM on March 26, 2007


way to go, coyroy.
posted by quonsar at 10:24 AM on March 26, 2007


Chomsky and John Zerzan have feuded for years. But Chomsky is no anarchist, he's a sad little bitch.
posted by parmanparman at 10:28 AM on March 26, 2007


Yes indeed, the war and this post both suck. Thanks for playing.
posted by doctor_negative at 10:29 AM on March 26, 2007


just Houston and Denver? could we give up Detroit while we're at it too?
posted by inthe80s at 10:30 AM on March 26, 2007


This reminds me of that Warren Zevon song, "Things to do in Denver when you're using ridiculous hyperbole that you think is helping to make your point but really just turns people off, even the ones that agree with you."
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:32 AM on March 26, 2007



Take Dallas while you're at it.
posted by bukharin at 10:33 AM on March 26, 2007


The pictures of Isfahan are lovely and could have been the backbone of an excellent post, had the original poster chose to provide additional background on the place instead of harping about stuff the Metafilter community already pretty much agrees about.

On preview, what drjimmy11 said.
posted by infinitywaltz at 10:35 AM on March 26, 2007


eecummingsfilter
posted by joseph_elmhurst at 10:35 AM on March 26, 2007


SMOCK SMOCK SMOCK!

EVERYBODY NOW!
posted by quonsar at 10:39 AM on March 26, 2007


To be fair, Bush did destroy New Orleans to make things equal. And it does have a metropolitan population of greater than a million.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 10:39 AM on March 26, 2007


Gevalt.
posted by kosem at 10:41 AM on March 26, 2007


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