What bokononists whisper whenever they think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.


By Elton Beard

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide people into two kinds and those who don't. I don't.


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Saturday, March 20, 2004
12:00 PM PT

Shorter David Brooks:
Too Quiet on the Home Front
  • Compassionate conservatism is a con that failed.

11:00 AM PT

A Bush Faux. Matthew Yglesias (small-media edition) informs us that not enough people seem to read Matt Miller's stuff. Maybe so. But it may also be that not enough people listen to Mr. Miller's stuff either, so as a public service we have transcribed a snippet of KCRW's Left, Right and Center from yesterday:

Robert Scheer: First of all let me say. There were some of us in this country - I don't want to revisit the debate but I certainly think that myself, and I think, Arianna, Molly Ivans, Paul Krugman, fifteen million people who demonstrated, ninety percent of Spaniards, most Germans, most French, who did not buy the argument that there was an imminent, pressing threat of weapons of mass destruction that meant we should stop the U.N. from doing its work and invade another country, and that is the issue the administration would like to draw attention from. It is a question of the imminent danger that required an invasion.

[...]

Matt Miller: I want us to move to domestic but I do want to say Bob again - and I'm a foe of the Bush administration on many things as you know - I don't buy into the critique that they said it was an imminent threat. I've seen all the quotes that were thrown about. I remember Bush talking about it specifically not being imminent, you couldn't wait until it was imminent. I don't want to rehash that whole debate except to acknowledge that we don't agree on what the...

Arianna Huffington: Just the same, if you go to MoveOn.org...

Robert Scheer: Or Congressman Henry Waxman's...

Matt Miller: I've seen that, I think they're wrong. The president explicitly said, you can't wait till it's imminent. I'm a Bush foe - he said that - we can't wait till it's imminent.

Arianna Huffington: But just go to MoveOn and see Don Rumsfeld's interview with Bob Schiefer from last Sunday...

Matt Miller: I saw it. I saw it. We're going to move on...

Arianna Huffington: But this is Don Rumsfeld!

Matt Miller: I saw that! I clicked, I saw it!

Arianna Huffington: But even Rumsfeld told us that...

Matt Miller: No, I just don't think that's where it is... Let's move on...

Matthew Miller: obtuse or deliberately obtuse? We record, you decide...

Thursday, March 18, 2004
7:00 PM PT

Haiku Max Boot:
The Gospel According to the Loony Left

  Lake shimmers, fish hide.
Streams of glib hilarity
Veil propaganda.

See Also: other recent attempts at plausible deniability through humor by David Brooks and Charles Krauthammer. Are we witnessing the emergence of a trend here?

Wednesday, March 17, 2004
11:00 AM PT

Haiku William Safire:
Scandal at the U.N.

  Iraq corruption?
Don't look at Halliburton -
It's the U.N.'s fault!

Tuesday, March 16, 2004
3:00 PM PT

Riding a Dead Horse. Andrew Sullivan contends that Mr. Bush cannot be said to have squandered the "alleged sympathy of many in Western Europe after September 11":

All he did was to respond, at first in Afghanistan, a war opposed by many in the Guardian's pages, and thereafter in Iraq. For both wars, he secured bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress, and until the very last minute, support from the U.N. Security Council and dozens of allies.
Which brings to mind a story about the farmer who decided to train his horse to subsist without food. Each day he would feed the horse half as much as the day before. The training went very well until the very last minute, when the horse died.

Monday, March 15, 2004
11:00 AM PT

Haiku William Safire:
On Phony Toughness

  Kerry said I lie.
I pretend he accused you,
Thus proving his point.

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