freecounterpoint: Don't worry, be happy

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Don't worry, be happy

6 comments:

Mr roT said...: I wonder if VDH ever thinks anything is funny. For being a scholar of classical antiquity (sorry, Tecs, fortissimi sunt Belgae and all that, but they didn't write much down), you'd think there'd be a streak of black amusement sometimes out of this guy.

OK, on the attack he sometimes is ok, but this dirge he plays...change the song, willya?

Can't we all holler ooorah a couple times this Thanksgiving and rejoice that Obama is at least providing a soap opera and that soon his numbers will go negative outright?; 11/26/2009 11:45 AM
Tecumseh said...: I agree, VDH tends to be a Johnny-one-note kind of guy. Steyn is much better at the genre, gotta give him that. But then again, how many pundits have Steyn's writing ability?; 11/26/2009 3:15 PM
Mr roT said...: Just Steyn can write like that. Iowahawk is awesome but less political.; 11/26/2009 3:30 PM
Mr roT said...: I forgot where I was going on that first sentence. I meant to say that as a scholar of classical antiquity, VDH should've got some of that Mediterranean fatalism that tempers the gloom.

An occasional "Wow, this sucks, let's drink" would do him wonders as a writer.; 11/26/2009 3:31 PM
Tecumseh said...: Perhaps VDH needs some ouzo?; 11/26/2009 9:05 PM
Mr roT said...: Exactly, if you can tolerate ouzo (or retsina). Perikles weeps.; 11/26/2009 9:44 PM

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