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May. 4th, 2004 01:52 pmOK, but I will take a second to note that my respect for Pat Tillman grows more and more the more I learn about him. Sounds like he thought a lot. Sounds like he didn’t care much about convention. I already knew that he turned down big money to go fight for his country, and I already knew that he turned down a large contract earlier in his career so he could stay in Arizona with his team. I didn’t know he attended a christening in drag, or that he read as much as he seems to have.
Also, as noted progressive economist Max Sawicky notes, Ted Rall sucks.
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Date: 2004-05-04 07:08 pm (UTC)(hmm. Lead story today in the Collegian today says the student govt is trying to de-fund the newspaper. Whatever kind of free speech issues that little knot brings up, you gotta wonder about a paper that uses the word "independency" in a headline.)
I don't necessarily think Tillman was more of a hero than any of the other soldiers who died (although giving up that kind of money for something, anything, that you believe in has got to count big time) but I certainly don't see any need to villify him.
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Date: 2004-05-06 07:19 am (UTC)