March 17, 2005

Ireland and Analogies
Elendur

First I'll get out my one political comment: Bob, I disagree with that nuke analogy because nukes have the ingrained quality of not being precision weapons. If a nuke could target only enemy-combatents, or only a portion of enemy combatents (the equivolent of shooting someone in the foot), the analogy would work better.

Now, onto something that is less political: why do we Americans like Ireland so much? Most of us have never been there, yet it seems we have a natural affection for the Irish. It could be that we have a lot of Irish blood in us, or that we think anyone who can think up Saint Patrick's Day and who talks in such an (sorry, Annatar) amusing accent can't be all bad. If anyone can explain this, please help.

-Elendur