Saturday, January 13
No wonder he lives in Toronto (but only when it's sufficiently warm and "interesting"
We haven't heard much from Toronto/Iranian blogger "Hoder" for a while; time was I thought Jeff Jarvis was going to start an official fan club for the guy. 2002 seems like a long time ago.
He fits right in around here, as you'll see from a this Hugh Hewitt interview:
The weird thing about that "Canada" line is: we've had an unseasonably warm Toronto winter. Today's high is F51, which means among other things that all the young dudes in Boystown will be cruising the park in cutoffs this aft. In here, I had to shut off the heat. So "freezing" is the last word any of us would use to describe this winter's weather. Nice powers of perception, guy.
His warped ideas about US Christians and so on make him the perfect Torontonian otherwise.
I'm with See-Dubya; don't trust a pothead's geo-political musings.
He fits right in around here, as you'll see from a this Hugh Hewitt interview:
HH: Hossein, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. There are no radical Christians running around George Bush who believe in ushering in the End Times by the occasioning of chaos. That’s just not true. Do you have any names to go with…Well then why don't you just sod off, then, sonny boy? The cost of living is pretty high in this city. I wonder where he gets the money to do so much galavanting. Those tacky pop-ups on his site surely don't generate that much revenue.
HD: But the evidence is suggesting something else, actually.
HH: No, actually, it’s not. There isn’t anyone. Not one. You name me one name of a radical Christian…
HD: It doesn’t matter who is close to Bush or who is not. The policies that they’re doing, the invasion of Iraq, the whole rhetoric of you’re either with us or against us, and lots of other policies that come from that ideology, suggesting that they also believe in that, and it’s even more dangerous, because they’re more popular than this small group of Iranians who are supporting Ahmadinejad.
HH: Hossein, if, in fact, anyone believed that, and they believed in ushering in the End Times, they’d have had six years to start it by now.
HD: I don’t really know, but the evidence that I’m seeing from the Bush administration is much more dangerous than anything that you can see from Ahmadinejad’s government.
(...)
HH: When will you be back in Toronto?
HD: I’m not actually sure. I think Europe is much more of an interesting place than the freezing Canada, these days, in this winter.
The weird thing about that "Canada" line is: we've had an unseasonably warm Toronto winter. Today's high is F51, which means among other things that all the young dudes in Boystown will be cruising the park in cutoffs this aft. In here, I had to shut off the heat. So "freezing" is the last word any of us would use to describe this winter's weather. Nice powers of perception, guy.
His warped ideas about US Christians and so on make him the perfect Torontonian otherwise.
I'm with See-Dubya; don't trust a pothead's geo-political musings.
