Posted on 10/14/2004 6:15:42 AM PDT by Pokey78
Thanks for the excellent ping, Pokey!
Maybe he could replace the Leprechaun on FOX.
In other words, while you can make an argument for a ‘managerial’ approach to terrorism, the analogy with prostitution sounds more like an undeclared surrender.
That is precisely what it is. Whether prostitution is a "victimless crime" is debatable; whether terrorism is, is not. And that is the difference.
Water, water everywhere, but gotta stop to think, to quote The Rime Of The Ancient Swift Boat Mariner.
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The best line I have read all week.
Read his lips: No new crutches. Now that’s a campaign promise. President Kerry may be paralysed by nuance, but no one else will be. The healing balm of the Massachusetts Messiah will bring the crippled and stricken to their feet, which is more than Kerry’s speeches ever do. Just because he can’t choose his water doesn’t mean he can’t walk on it.
^^^^^^^^
My favorite among favorites from this fabulous article. What a fantastic brain Steyn has for writing!
hi,
this column is very, very good... but let me tell ya, he's got even better stuff; some of which I've link-saved on my PC (and would be most happy to email you). Freepmail me if you'd like the links.
CGVet58
Even when he mixes metaphors he's good. The part about staying awake through the wet cement of the guy's prose is a great image!
BTTT
"The part about staying awake through the wet cement of the guy's prose is a great image!"
This is one of the ones I was going to highlight until I realized I wanted to highlight the entire piece.
He had one a couple months back that was of equal brilliance (and, to be honest, most of his are), but I can't remember what it was right now. I'll post a link if I find it.
This was another good one, from a while back:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171853/posts
If he had actually done that, Clinton wouldn't have turned him down when Sudan tried to hand him over.
What I find interesting about Steyn is that he combines wit with some really deep insights. I'd say that he really writes a brilliant column 19 out of 20 times, and sometimes that miss is simply because it's written about local British politics and I just don't get it.
George Will writes a great column about 10% of the time. Krauthammer probably more than half. Coulter is almost always good, but it's not usually very deep, at least certainly not at the depth Steyn reaches.
And best I can tell, Steyn writes these columns at a frantic pace. I fancy myself as a pretty good writer, but if I had set out to write this Steyn column, which I couldn't possibly do in his style, it would have taken me a month. He covered that much.
LOL!
This is the key issue. There is no bigger elitists than the Lefties, all their claims to egalitarianism aside. They're "the vanguard of the progressive mankind", aren't they? Translated into plain language, that means they always know better, and so treat 'the people', the presumed crux of all their dreams and activities, simply as morons.
That how Australian Laborites, cited by Steyn, dared to ask voters' endoursment and not to offer a single new idea in return - why to care, the morons would swallow anything hook, line and sinker.
Lefty elitism prooved a disaster for the Kerries down under, same hopefully will happen in America - because, as Steyn put it, enough Americans understand...
Much thnx 4 the ping, knight.
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