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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Sunday, December 12, 2004 ::

Euro Blogging

I just did a long overdue cleanup on the blogroll--the election links were getting a little stale and I kinda felt like I was leaving the Christmas lights up way too long. In any case, TechCentral's Marc Johnson has done a nice little piece on european bloggers so I decided to replace the old 'election' blog-roll with a new European section with links to some of the blogs highlighted in the TC column. In so doing I stumbled upon this classic blog post from "The Sexy Scourgers of Spanish Socialism" Iberian Notes--Cataloonies vs Spain-in-the-ass:

"A Spain-in-the-Ass is a radical, obsessed Spanish nationalist, the equivalent of a Cataloony. Moderate Spanish nationalists do not fall into this category any more than moderate Catalan nationalists fall into the Cataloony category. A good test for determining who is a radical nationalist and who is a moderate is George Orwell's. Orwell said, more or less, that a radical nationalist is a person who looks at every issue through the prism of his national group and especially obsesses over the relative prestige of his group. Radical nationalists tend to be very big on symbolism, by the way, said old George. He went on to define the word "patriot" as someone who loves his country and its culture but has no desire to force his ways on other people. I would call Orwell's "patriot" a moderate nationalist. And I would call people who try to tell other people what language they must speak radical nationalists--i.e. Cataloonies and Spains-in-the-Ass."

Check the blogroll on your left--there's lots more where this came from.

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