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Archive for November 29th, 2005

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Cue Blogosphere Triumphalism Entry

Donald Rumsfeld reads old Roger L. Simon posts from the podium at the Pentagon. Shades of Dick Cheney!
Weirdly, I felt safer when the freelance shills took their cues from our rulers than I do now that our rulers have started taking their cues from the shills. If Sinatra started asking Joey Bishop for advice, would [...]

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Who Art in Heaven

If I were ever to actually get religion, it would be because of Gene Wolfe. Two years after Patrick and Teresa kindly sent me a reading copy of Gene Wolfe’s The Knight, I’m finally reading through it, and hit a very, very striking passage. All you need to know is that the narrator, the Knight [...]

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

They Don’t Have to Take You in After All

                    ”I should have called it
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”
Robert Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man“
According to the Associated Press, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi can’t go home again. I wonder if the tribes’ fellow Jordanians will be heartened or consider it too long in coming. I wonder how I feel about it myself. When he [...]