Comments on: It Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Tyrant http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/10/it-couldnt-happen-to-a-nicer-tyrant/ Questions through the veil of ignorance Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: MichaelW http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/10/it-couldnt-happen-to-a-nicer-tyrant/comment-page-1/#comment-135449 MichaelW Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:00:39 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/10/it-couldnt-happen-to-a-nicer-tyrant/#comment-135449 Heh. Yeah, I forgot about that. I guess that wasn't too fair to the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1392791.stm" rel="nofollow">"Commissar of Soul"</a> was it. Speaking of incongruity, a <a href="http://reason.com/blog/show/125392.html#933090" rel="nofollow">Hit & Run commenter</a> pointed to who should really feel disgraced over this whole thing: <blockquote>“Prostitute Admits Link to Eliot Spitzer; Resigns From Escort Service in Disgrace”</blockquote> Heh. Yeah, I forgot about that. I guess that wasn’t too fair to the “Commissar of Soul” was it. Speaking of incongruity, a Hit & Run commenter pointed to who should really feel disgraced over this whole thing:

“Prostitute Admits Link to Eliot Spitzer; Resigns From Escort Service in Disgrace”

]]> By: Joshua Foust http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/10/it-couldnt-happen-to-a-nicer-tyrant/comment-page-1/#comment-135446 Joshua Foust Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:50:47 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/10/it-couldnt-happen-to-a-nicer-tyrant/#comment-135446 You compared Spitzer to Putin? Don't insult Putin. At least he has this whole "national glory" thing going on. And did Spitzer ever go on a weirdly homoerotic <a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2007/08/13/photo-gallery-vladimir-putin-s-shirtless-fishing-adventure.aspx" rel="nofollow">shirtless fishing adventure</a> in Siberia? I think not! You compared Spitzer to Putin? Don’t insult Putin. At least he has this whole “national glory” thing going on. And did Spitzer ever go on a weirdly homoerotic shirtless fishing adventure in Siberia? I think not!

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