Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JOIN PENINSULA!" reads the latest poster, "if you're a racist asshole" it forgot...
...mean to pick on the boys (and two girls) at Peninsula. We just want to comment on the rag's latest attempt to recruit. Apparently some miscreants have been fabricating fake Peninsula posters and we feel silly...because we can't tell which posters are real and which ones are not. But neither can Peninsula and that makes...
Faith, Western civilization and patriotism come off like tired middle class values, propped up by the likes of Peninsula editors. Surely, Peninsula, that vigorous basher of the liberal status quo, has not slipped into apologies for the two car family? It is not the fate of the magazine that interests me, however. If the former gadflies want to slip into a premature middle age, that is not my concern. But they will not drag faith and Western civilization after them...
...might remember that Jesus was spirit made flesh, one might emphasize, contrary to Whitman, His incarnation over His sacrifice. To speak on Peninsula's own terms, one might advise Whitman that it is better to live a Christ-like life than to die for a cause. Religion is not nearly so far off from earthly cynicism as Whitman would have us believe...
This is the rub, of course. Western civilization is not the tired-out conventionalism as Peninsula would have you believe. There are sources of great and invigorating wisdom in the old antheap, and we should take such counsel wherever we can get it. In our foraging, however, we must be careful, unlike our fellows over at Peninsula, not to mistake irreverence for unbelief...