Strangers in a Strange Land

Julian Sanchez | September 11, 2005

A group of libertarian interns who're living in the Heritage Foundation dorm have started a group blog, which isn't quite the reality show that should get, but has humor potential nevertheless.

Comments

|9.11.05 @ 1:59PM|#

"Potential" being the key word here. I had to stop reading after awhile. It's not that it's bad, really, it's just that, for a "group blog" it seems extremely sparse in terms of actual commentary. Of what I read, entire blog entries were simply quotes from somebody else, with the post title being the only thing to pass for commentary.

Yeah, copy-pasting a bunch of quotes from actual pundits---don't strain yourself, fellas.

|9.11.05 @ 3:20PM|#

Evan, I agree that it's a bit of a dud.

Julian, please do post another link if an MTV-like three-way-in-the-shower post appears at some point in the future however.

Sofocleto|9.11.05 @ 6:01PM|#

Televised images of the attacks on the World Trade Center
suggest that explosives devices caused the collapse of both
towers, a New Mexico Tech explosion expert said Tuesday.
The collapse of the buildings appears "too methodical" to
be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures,
said Van Romero, vice president for research at New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology.

"My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the
airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some
explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the
towers to collapse," Romero said. Romero is a former
director of the Energetic Materials Research and Testing
Center at Tech, which studies explosive materials and
the effects of explosions on buildings, aircraft and
other structures.

Romero said he based his opinion on video aired on
national television broadcasts. Romero said the collapse
of the structures resembled those of controlled implosions
used to demolish old structures. "It would be difficult for
something from the plane to trigger an event like that,"
Romero said in a phone interview from Washington, D.C.

Romero said he and another Tech administrator were on
a Washington-area subway when an airplane struck the
Pentagon. He said he and Denny Peterson, vice president
for administration and finance, were en route to an office
building near the Pentagon to discuss defense-funded
research programs at Tech.

If explosions did cause the towers to collapse, the
detonations could have been caused by a small amount
of explosive, he said. "It could have been a relatively small
amount of explosives placed in strategic points," Romero
said. The explosives likely would have been put in more
than two points in each of the towers, he said.



Comment:

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

|9.11.05 @ 9:09PM|#

Conspiracy is where paranoia and obstinance meet.

|9.11.05 @ 9:15PM|#

Ok:

smacky, stubby, fluffy, shecky, shiki, and now Barfy....which one of these isn't a poseur? I'll give you a hint: me.

smacky #1!!!!

|9.11.05 @ 9:30PM|#

smacky,
May all poseurs be nude. May they all be beautiful women. And may all the photographers posting their images here be above average.

|9.11.05 @ 9:35PM|#

Smacky,
Keep a look out for the rest of the gang: Dopey, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Hickory, Dickery, Doc and...did I forget anyone?

|9.11.05 @ 9:45PM|#

Sleazy and Surly

|9.11.05 @ 9:55PM|#

I think it's official now. Mr. Sanchez is the patron saint of wacky conspiracy theorists.

Today must be St. Julian's Day. Every post they come to celebrate him.

Have to remember to mark my calender.

|9.12.05 @ 12:19AM|#

Hey, the first rule of smart blogging is to not diss anyone who can sneak up on you while you're asleep.

|9.12.05 @ 5:36AM|#

So, "Jonathan Rick" is a group? Serves them there dang conservatives right to employ a schizo.

Maybe there are others, but on the title page, I only see JR(!) posting.

|9.12.05 @ 3:49PM|#

Attention libertarians: The Heritage Foundation is not a libertarian institution. Escape from your dorm and get far, far away from Washington DC.

Jonathan Rick|9.12.05 @ 4:13PM|#

Evans, your comments are accurate, but now that Hit & Run has linked to us--thanks, BTW--things should pick up.