[agere_contra]

So I had no expectations about his executive competency. But I assumed he had folks around him who could take care of that kind of stuff - that he'd be the smiley-face hopeychange frontman on an ideologically disastrous but ruthlessly efficient team. I figured he'd have a Deputy Assistant Associate Secretary of whatever who'd know what the form was for a prime ministerial visit by a close ally, and an Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary who wouldn't compound the gaffes by telling Fleet Street who cares about the Brits anyway. I expected he'd have an Assistant Associate Deputy Secretary who'd know that Russo-American relations weren't the proper forum for lame prop gags, and a Deputy Associate Assistant Secretary who, once the decision were taken to go ahead with the lame prop gag, would at least be able to translate correctly one single word from English to Russian.

Amazing stuff from Steyn.

[GeronL]

Steyn in print is like Rush Limbaugh on radio

[Remole]

I am sure that we all have our favorite Steyn comments.

One that still puts me in stitches comes from fall 01 or spring 02, right around the time when the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” was in its heyday. Well, there occured on Saudi Arabia TV a fund-raiser for Palestinian suicide bombers, and Steyn’s essay called the show, “Who Wants to be a Million Air Particles?”