Friday, October 09, 2009

Yes we can! -- Nobel goes Affirmative Action

Early racist reaction. Kaus' horrifyingly good advice.
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10 comments:

Tecumseh said...

See that, Mr Rot? Going to Harvard pays off. Seethe.

10/09/2009 9:06 AM
Tecumseh said...

Kaus is an idiot. I'd take the moolah, and enjoy the good life. What's bad about that?

10/09/2009 9:09 AM
Mr roT said...

HotAir has the following page and comment:



ROTFLMAO…. I read this little gem by Victor David Hanson last night… This morning it rumbles through my mind like the sound of a 155 millimeter howitzer round going down range…

Nemesis Everywhere

I have believed in the power of the goddess Nemesis (“dispenser of dues”) ever since I was introduced to the concept as a teenager studying classics, especially in the texts of Hesiod, Herodotus, and Sophocles.

Some of you know her also as a variant of eastern Karma, or the folk notion of ‘what comes around, goes around’, or the now common “ain’t payback a bitch”? We all agree on the symptoms: overweening success and surfeit (koris) lead to hubris (gratuitous arrogance), which in turn promotes destructive behavior (atê), that at last calls you to the attention of divine Nemesis—who ensures your ruin. At Rhamnous on the Attic coast there is a beautiful temple to the goddess, proof of her ubiquity and power.

Obama as all-knowing Oedipus

As sure as sun rises, you readers knew that, as early as 2007, Obama’s fiery rhetoric about the disaster in Iraq and the good war in Afghanistan was not only disingenuous, but would come lurking back to haunt him—especially given the efforts of the talented David Petraeus, and the myriad challenges of the age-old tribalism in Afghanistan.

And so it has. He now owns the “good” and “necessary” war that, according to Obama, we supposedly wrongly “took our eye off of.” Now at last Obama is free as he wished to go into Pakistan in hot pursuit of terrorists (and as he once boasted in the debates amid the trashing of the then big-target Bush administration.)*

10/09/2009 9:14 AM
Mr roT said...

Everyone knows that Obama has all the money he can ever want already lined up.

10/09/2009 9:14 AM
Tecumseh said...

Can I have a pint of Arrogant Bastard, then? Haven't been able to find a decent IPA yet on these shores. And now I'm reduced to Heineken... Nemesis is after me.

10/09/2009 10:33 AM
Mr roT said...

Can't find beer in Austria. I am in Rome this weekend eating and drinking. Deeferent Story.

10/09/2009 10:38 AM
Tecumseh said...

I'm outta here this weekend, too. Gotta go south look for monkish beer. But what beer do you drink in that Etruscan backwater of yours? Birra Moretti? Yuck.

10/09/2009 2:01 PM
Mr roT said...

Drinking the redd redd vaiiine.

10/09/2009 2:18 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Better Redder Dan Dedder

10/09/2009 7:21 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

A post from "Lucianne":

Nobel Committee members have now been identified:

Per Kris Matthewsen
Arne Keith Olbermannsen
Lars George Sorossen
Karl Rangelsen
Plagar Josev Bidensen

The Last Viking, Plagar da Horrible, is particularly good.

10/09/2009 7:29 PM

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