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I think this FireDogLake blogger takes John Boehner's "machine gun" imagery too seriously, as if this pickled Ohio sad sack was crafting some cunning subliminal message to god-knows-who about who-knows-what. I think a more straightforward interpretation of Bohener's remark is that people of his ilk are every bit as delusional as Colonel Qaddafi. One is left to wonder why the Times and the Post and NPR and [~] use Quaddafi as the gold standard for insanity and megalomania when we have so many competitors right here in the good old USA. I'll acknowledge that the previous sentence was a mere rhetorical device: no one really is "left wondering" about that for very long.
A client state goes rogue; the mice that would be elephants, in musk, stampede together toward -- something that's intended in some hazy way to not be what they had. "Revolutions are always verbose" (L. Trotsky). It's the quiet building after, that with luck, both endures and improves.
ReplyDeleteQaddafi = dead (or at least defunct) dictator walking. What a curious trial he would make in the world court...hence nix the "defunct" part.
Tacitus
the little rockhead toon at the top of this blog seems completely appropriate now. Everything is just fucking crazy. Unless you just tune out-- then it was a very nice day. Winter is over.
ReplyDeleteWaiting here for some music RC.
Tacitus: thanks for breaking your silence to check in. Nyuk nyuk. I don't think the dashing Libyan colonel will ever make it to The Hague, but if he does, it really doesn't matter what he has to say since he will be considered mentally unfit to stand trial when his team summonses Newtie Gingrich to testify as a character witness.
ReplyDeleteMr. Bleu: yes, that graphic was pulled from the archives for that very reason.