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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
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This morning, as I was reading the Yahoo!News* Op/Ed page (not that I'm endorsing reading Yahoo!News; it's just the only thing I can read on my phone) there were two editorials stacked right next to each other. First was a piece of fiction from The Weekly Standard, headlined The Character Assassination of John Bolton. Right underneath that was The Nation's equally, well, yellow John Bolton vs. Democracy. To summarize, The Nation came very close to accusing John Bolton of being Satan; The Weekly Standard came very close to accusing him of being Jesus. The left and the right have a lot in common when they're both crazy.
Speaking of crazy, William F. Buckley also had an editorial up there. It was under the quite sensible sounding headline Pity Rhode Island.
Speaking of the bond between crazy liberals and crazy conservatives, Maggie Ghallager has a must read essay on her long friendship with Andrea Dworkin.
Speaking of crazy, William F. Buckley also had an editorial up there. It was under the quite sensible sounding headline Pity Rhode Island.
What we are seeing is a tug-of-war involving the re-election, in 2006, of a senator in Rhode Island. Chafee is a Republican. If he feels bound to stay with the GOP, that's because, as he reminded everyone recently, he was named after Abraham Lincoln. So he has not changed party affiliation, but his voting record would fit nicely within the bounds of Democratic orthodoxy. ... Without Chafee, the committee is tied, and Bolton can't therefore get pre-emptive consideration in the Senate, where he would be passed.To his credit, Buckley manages to stay almost entirely away from the craziness of the Bolton feeding frenzy. (Thought not entirely away from craziness: “Daniel Patrick Moynihan reminded us that Socrates still lives.” Okay, then.) So, here's to William F. Buckley: the least crazy one in the room, sadly enough.
Speaking of the bond between crazy liberals and crazy conservatives, Maggie Ghallager has a must read essay on her long friendship with Andrea Dworkin.
Read the obit of Dworkin in the New York Sun by Stephen Miller. He reports that when Allen Ginsberg told her that the right wanted to put him in jail she replied, "They are very sentimental...I would kill you." Dworkin was smart and interesting but her severe PTSD held her back from greatness in my opinion.........GUYPost a Comment
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