If denouncing the neocons is the New Black, then warning of a coming fall line of Buchananite brownshirts never goes out of style, regardless of the fact that the jackboots perennially fail to appear on the runways of our political system.This perpetual rite, handed down through the generations, works even now to distract many fromContinue reading “note”
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Market Disparities and Resentment Brokers
“Because I’m the conservative, whether you know it or not. You don’t know who’s out there on those wild and hungry streets. I am your prudent broker on Judgment Day. Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn, they’re gonna blow my friend, and on that day, how grateful you will be for your prudent broker…your prudent broker…whoContinue reading “Market Disparities and Resentment Brokers”
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A foul smell arouses you from slumber, twisted into a painful position amidst piled bags of garbage in the dense black of a deep alley at night. Your head feels leaden, sagging toward your chest. You labor to pull yourself into a one kneed crouch, cradling your throbbing head in your hand for a momentContinue reading “…”
ephemera
The Girl With Flies on Her Face “Do you have a request?”The Okinawan bartender’s accented words took a while to make their way through the fog shrouding my senses, created as a byproduct of the pleasant psychoactive interaction of sake, Kirin, and what may have been absinthe. After the import of his words welled upContinue reading “ephemera”
War of the Poses
Opening a recent Foreign Affairs article, Tony Blair demonstrated an ability to imbue rank dishonesty with self-righteous arrogance that would make Douglas Feith envious: Our response to the September 11 attacks has proved even more momentous than it seemed at the time. That is because we could have chosen security as the battleground. But weContinue reading “War of the Poses”
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You don’t remember how you came to be in the park, sitting Indian style under a tree, drawing long drags from a cigarette yielding a strangely metallic taste. Looking up through the canopy of the large tree above your vision flattens out, all effective depth perception gone as the world appears as if projected ontoContinue reading “…”
A Foreign Policy About Nothing
The Costanza Doctrine. By way of Dr. Leo Strauss.
One More Insubstantial Thing
I don’t speak your blasted language.—Col. John Norton-Griffiths I have to break my self-imposed deafness regarding all things political and silence regarding the blog to ask, if anyone’s left out there, regarding this renegade Obama campaign anti-Clinton ad parodying the old “1984” Apple Computer commercial: how on earth is this an “attack ad”?*Is it merelyContinue reading “One More Insubstantial Thing”
Deranged Bedfellows
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.—George W. Bush, Inaugural Address, 2005…we will not stop at this point, but will pursue the evil force into its own lands,Continue reading “Deranged Bedfellows”
muddle
Where have I been? What have I been up to? I could concoct a story, and believe me, it would be a hell of a story. But I’m tired. I can’t think straight.Can’t think straight. How apt an expression. Thoughts refuse to proceed in orderly straight lines but curl back and founder in the murkyContinue reading “muddle”
untethered 