19.4.05
And again...
a) it's been nice out
b) I've had "real" work to do
c) I've been out of town a little
But really - it's all pretty loop-y, isn't it? I could've written two weeks ago that Republicans are corrupt; that Marburg, a ridiculously scary hemhorragic fever, continues to rage unabated in Angola (237 dead, now - at least); that a dangerous psychopath will most likely ascend to represent the United States in yet another way; etc., etc. ad infinitum. And that nobody's really paying attention; that the "real news" is that athletes cheat and there isn't another pope yet.
And anyhow - there's wit out there greater than mine. On Ann Coulter, Wolcott:
These are days where profanity is just, for the world is profane.
On hope, Jeff:
b) I've had "real" work to do
c) I've been out of town a little
But really - it's all pretty loop-y, isn't it? I could've written two weeks ago that Republicans are corrupt; that Marburg, a ridiculously scary hemhorragic fever, continues to rage unabated in Angola (237 dead, now - at least); that a dangerous psychopath will most likely ascend to represent the United States in yet another way; etc., etc. ad infinitum. And that nobody's really paying attention; that the "real news" is that athletes cheat and there isn't another pope yet.
And anyhow - there's wit out there greater than mine. On Ann Coulter, Wolcott:
She is the pinup pundit of White Prerogative, her arrogant vanity perfect for a country and a media-political culture that refuse to recognize its postindustrial decline and decay. A country that still thinks it can whip the world into obeying its will.On John Bolton, the Rude Pundit:
Bolton is a lying sack of shit, a scumbag whose career has been made comforting politically powerful conservatives, a provocateur whose ego knows no bounds, an asshole beyond any human's reasonable comprehension of assholishness. And, of course, that means he is the perfect man to represent George Bush's United States at the U.N.And again:
But, in the last week or so, so much has come out about Bolton, after his bizarro confirmation hearing where he had to promise over and over that, no, really, really, he loved the U.N. and didn't want the building blown up and Kofi Annan forced to drink barrels of Iraqi oil. It was a fuckin' disgrace: it's like hiring a gay man to fuck your wife and he has to tell you over and over, no, he really, really loves to eat pussy. No, look, c'mon, he's fucked a woman or two in his life, not just men. Sure, it might be fun to watch the disaster that that fuck session would be, but ultimately everyone's gonna end up unfulfilled. And why? Because you were a stupid shithead in hiring a gay guy to fuck your wife.
And Bolton promises to be the kind of guy who stands in the corner and jacks off while his partner weeps in bed, screamin', "Look at my throbbing, massive cock. You don't get any of it. It's all for me, bitch," smackin' that meat like it's a Frenchman's ass. Then, 'cause he's, you know, batshit insane, Bolton would howl as he came on your curtains, howl and dance in triumph that he jacked off once again.
So now we know Bolton bullied underlings by screaming at them. A "serial abuser," Carl Ford, Jr. called him, and he wasn't talking about Bolton's fury that Cap'n Crunch has a more lustrous moustache. We know that Bolton prevented Colin Powell from receiving full information about strategies that concerned U.S. relations with Iran, outright lying to Richard Armitage when asked a direct question about one piece of info. We know that, according to a letter posted at Kos, Bolton went completely fucked-in-the-head-where's-the-tranq-gun insane on a USAID subcontractor in Moscow: "Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel -- throwing things at me, shoving threatening letters under my door and, generally, behaving like a madman . . . John Bolton put me through hell -- and he did everything he could to intimidate, malign and threaten not just me, but anybody unwilling to go along with his version of events. His behavior back in 1994 wasn't just unforgivable, it was pathological." And we're not even gettin' into his role in stopping the recount in Florida in 2000.
These are days where profanity is just, for the world is profane.
On hope, Jeff:
Rather than bleeding hearts, we need big hearts. Heavy, swollen hearts, that just can't bear anymore. And because they can drive us to action, rather than to the dead end of cheap sentiment, hearts like those can become weapons.
perma-linky posted by jkd : 08:51
