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[Tetro Kornbluth]

Yeah everyone is doing it. Why not. Whatever.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Your reaction to Hispanic becoming a race on the US Census?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Do you still hold to your claim that it's completely wrong if anyone belongs to a religious group other than that of their parents ("or perhaps their spouse") as you said in Mibbit?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Your reaction to Hispanic becoming a race on the US Census?

A great sense of smug triumph and smarm.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Do you still hold to your claim that it's completely wrong if anyone belongs to a religious group other than that of their parents ("or perhaps their spouse") as you said in Mibbit?

I never said it was completely wrong in any moral sense - I was saying that it's almost never how it is done in this country. You are one or the other, you will be born one and will die as one in the vast majority of cases (those that don't usually just drop identifying with either, but those cases are often more complicated than they seem). I don't think this setup is particularly ethical and certainly not justifiable if one were to take the truth claims of religions seriously, but who does that?

[Dr. Cynic]

Yeah everyone is doing it. Why not. Whatever.

And yet you didn't come say hello in mine. For shame, Irishman.

If I were to visit Ireland, what would be a place you'd recommend visiting?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

What's the future of Fianna Fail?

[Battista Minola 1616]

Are you a threatre-goer? What are your thoughts on that art versus cinema?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Do you still hold to your claim that it's completely wrong if anyone belongs to a religious group other than that of their parents ("or perhaps their spouse") as you said in Mibbit?

I never said it was completely wrong in any moral sense - I was saying that it's almost never how it is done in this country. You are one or the other, you will be born one and will die as one in the vast majority of cases (those that don't usually just drop identifying with either, but those cases are often more complicated than they seem). I don't think this setup is particularly ethical and certainly not justifiable if one were to take the truth claims of religions seriously, but who does that?

But the context was you and oakvale expressing disapproval with the fact that the US does NOT have that setup as you described.

[wnwnwn]

Opinion on Peter King?

[All Along The Watchtower]

Which columnist/pundit, on either side of the Atlantic, annoys you the most?

Feel free to list more than one.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Yeah everyone is doing it. Why not. Whatever.

And yet you didn't come say hello in mine. For shame, Irishman.

If I were to visit Ireland, what would be a place you'd recommend visiting?

The North East Coast - north of Belfast up to at least Bushmills. Galway City.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

What's the future of Fianna Fail?

Probably not much of one, apart from a collection of TDs who work together to avoid being independents.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Are you a threatre-goer? What are your thoughts on that art versus cinema?

I'd like to go to the Theatre more often than I do. I haven't gone once this year but I am going in September to a performance of Krapp's Last Trapp performed by Stephen Rea. Looking forward to it.

Second question needs to be better defined. Cinema is an art form in itself, and would not be the only one which can't be understood except in relation to commercial realties, as true for 'art cinema' as Marvelslop.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Opinion on Peter King?

Highly Negative.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Which columnist/pundit, on either side of the Atlantic, annoys you the most?

Feel free to list more than one.

Too many to mention and not a productive use of my negative energies.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Are you a threatre-goer? What are your thoughts on that art versus cinema?

I'd like to go to the Theatre more often than I do. I haven't gone once this year but I am going in September to a performance of Krapp's Last Trapp performed by Stephen Rea. Looking forward to it.

Second question needs to be better defined. Cinema is an art form in itself, and would not be the only one which can't be understood except in relation to commercial realties, as true for 'art cinema' as Marvelslop.

Of course cinema is an art form in itself. My question was deliberately vague as a general prompt - I know you have a lot of thoughts about cinema and I imagine you have a lot of thoughts about theatre too, some of which may be parallel.