[Diddle E. Squat]

Monumentally unremarkable response.

[Publius6961]

Monumentally unremarkable response. "...it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this".

I know and love history, and it shall be remain the proper arbiter.

This ``nonsense," he says, reflects ``the difficulty intellectuals habitually have in distinguishing between the state of their minds and the state of the world." And it reflects what has been called ``the parochialism of the present," which Harries says is ``a condition resulting from a combination of ignorance of history and an egotistical insistence on exaggerating the importance of events that more or less directly involve oneself.
--- Owen Harries, editor emeritus of The National Interest quarterly, as quoted by George Will, Dec. 24, 2001

[highflight]

publius has obviously run out of Hydrogen!!!