Comments on: Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, and color, but also on the grounds of ability https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/not-only-do-they-prohibit-discrimination-on-the-grounds-of-race-creed-and-color-but-also-on-the-grounds-of-ability/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 18 May 2026 14:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/not-only-do-they-prohibit-discrimination-on-the-grounds-of-race-creed-and-color-but-also-on-the-grounds-of-ability/comment-page-1/#comment-3759202 T. Beholder Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:44:12 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53309#comment-3759202 For one thing, if Tom Lehrer were an honest man, he would have dedicated “Who’s Next?” to the dude who buried the early efforts at limiting proliferation: Churchill.

]]> By: Chedolf https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/not-only-do-they-prohibit-discrimination-on-the-grounds-of-race-creed-and-color-but-also-on-the-grounds-of-ability/comment-page-1/#comment-3759008 Chedolf Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:36:42 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53309#comment-3759008 “…the widows and cripples in old London town who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.”

Germany didn’t bomb British cities until Churchill initiated a bombing campaign on German cities. Churchill did this precisely to provoke that German response. His motive was that he wanted to kill off growing support in the UK for a “negotiated peace” with Germany, and he believed German strikes on British civilians would accomplish his goal.

Lehrer probably would have thought this was a clever strategy that morally justified the price paid by “cripples in old London town.”

]]> By: Michael van der Riet https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/not-only-do-they-prohibit-discrimination-on-the-grounds-of-race-creed-and-color-but-also-on-the-grounds-of-ability/comment-page-1/#comment-3758926 Michael van der Riet Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:21:59 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53309#comment-3758926 To paraphrase Winston Churchill, who I don’t like much but he did have a felicitous turn of phrase, “America is the most evil nation that has ever existed, except for all the others.”

]]> By: John L. McCormack https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/not-only-do-they-prohibit-discrimination-on-the-grounds-of-race-creed-and-color-but-also-on-the-grounds-of-ability/comment-page-1/#comment-3758920 John L. McCormack Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:48:05 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53309#comment-3758920 I don’t think it was ever possible to be drafted into the NSA. Rather, Lehrer was probably in the then Army Security Agency (merged into Inscom in 1976), which was under the operational control of the NSA.

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