tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707444165003305798.post1361453096486733015..comments2023-10-24T17:21:16.565+02:00Comments on Sounds in the Hickory Wind: Nimbyism in New YorkThe Hickory Windhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099970252405596982noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707444165003305798.post-36661553315555658522010-09-12T23:41:01.534+02:002010-09-12T23:41:01.534+02:00In fact, I don't read Polly either, but she...In fact, I don't read Polly either, but she's useful as a metonym for hypocritical left-wing columnists.<br /><br />On the other point, I missed the Blitz by several decades, and I wouldn't care to make comparisons, but we, and I include myself, live too well these days to accept easily the thyought of losing it all.The Hickory Windhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02099970252405596982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707444165003305798.post-23338480836325125082010-09-11T14:41:21.494+02:002010-09-11T14:41:21.494+02:00I don't regularly read Polly Toynbee and am gl...I don't regularly read Polly Toynbee and am glad to be free of that irritation. But I see a huge difference between the British, as typified by their reactions to the Blitz of 1940, and the Americans, as exposed in their reactions to 9/11.<br /><br />A difference which speaks for itself, I think.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com