tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50376432011-04-21T14:52:52.264-05:00Homeric laughter is the province of the Olympians. Herodotean laughter is the snark of historians watching mankind fall, repeatedly, into the same damned mudholes. This irregular blog will chronicle wars both literal and cultural, and watch how history replayed becomes farce.Markhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13692525967743201455noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037643.post-1130387570919991742005-10-26T23:10:00.000-05:002005-10-26T23:32:50.930-05:00

They played and won, and they deserved to win through they way in which they played. The Astros did not play as they ought, did not win, and did not deserve to win.That is an absolute.That said.... The ALDS and ALCS opponents of the ChiSox have a beef coming. As does every baseball fan in the country, including Braves and Cards fans. Officiating in the post-season has been abysmally bad. All

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And no breezier than most politicians. No damage.Spotty ISP here, though, so - the recap will be Sunday or Monday.But: all well here, save the omnipresence of Sheila Jackson Lee on every channel.

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Well, even my old Epinions colleague Laurence Simon is bugging on out.Sensible man.I expect things will be rough here.I also expect that, out where we'll be, all will be well, and all manner of thing ... you get the drift.In the interim, it is an instructive time.A state in which even Governor Goodhair, although 'dumber'n ary painted post,' can make decisions, in advance of disaster.A city and a

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It’s been quite some time since I’ve taken to this – by now moribund – blog. Blogging, per se, simply takes more time than I generally have available.However, it is now even more necessary than commonly to speak up, and speak out.For those of you who are new here, I am impelled to make a few brief introductory remarks. I am a Democrat, albeit a conservative first before I am a party man. I hold

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Well. Here we are. I warned y’all when this began that I was not likely to update all that often, time being a luxury to me. But if I cannot match my fellow bloggers in frequency of output, perhaps I can try to match them in quality, and to deal with the Big Picture. This seems as good a time as any to step back and look at a few things. The Moral Equivalencies of Michael Moron Shortly

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Call Out the Blog-Troops! The enemy - the Fifth Columnists, appeasers, and other 'anti-war' mouthbreathers - are planning a 'Virtual March on Washington.' Well, by God, two can play at that game. The Munzenbergers and Vierecks of this latest batch of Shills-for-Tyrants, Inc, are a prize bunch of Useful Idiots operating under the umbrella name of 'Win Without War.' (Next battlecry: Drink

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Good Lord, There's So Much to Catch Up On. Meanwhile, this from the archives Before Blogging. Just a reminder that the Culture War also matters. ********************** Halfwits of the World, Untie! (Um, ‘Uniet’? ‘Utein’? Oh. ‘Unite!’ There We Go!) Journalists traditionally refer to op-ed pieces of high would-be portentousness - not to say pomposity - as ‘thumb-suckers.’ This truly

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Would You Buy a Used Policy From This Man?

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In Other News.... (Now that my own pretentiousness has had its just deserts....) The Raelian cult announced today that in fact, there have been prior successful human clonings in France. The cult's leader claims that these were performed by the extraterrestrials who taught the Raelians their 'secrets,' and were performed in fact some years ago. Specifically, he asserted that Jacques Chirac

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And We're Back. With a Maxima Culpa. The preferred form is of course Herodotean. What's more, I'm supposed to know that, and no, we can't blame the Sudafed. Just sloppiness and cut and paste and lack of checking. Prode goeth before a fall and All That. It being a point of honor in blogdom to leave one's screwups, bonehead plays, errors, and dropping of infield fly balls out there for all to

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Oh, Great. Now We're in TheraFlu(TM) Country. Don't expect much from me for a day or two. As if you were.

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More on Munich (The Merry München Munchkins) I said yesterday that the recent antics of the heirs of Charlemagne – France, Germany, and the Belgians – would be amusing in a dark sort of way, were they not so grim in their consequences. Let us look carefully at what is going on, shall we? Let us look, first, at the consequences for Frabelgiany itself. The Franco-Belgian-German attempt to

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Before We Take You Back to This Episode of Warblog Warbling, A Brief Word From Our Sponsor: Song of the Merry Murderers (Sung by Osama, Saddam, and Arafat / featuring cameos by Kim Jong Il and the Shades of Hitler and Stalin) To kill the Jews and hang the Pope, Go conquer neighb’ring lands: These are our dearest, fondest hopes, The basis of our plans. Although the Yanks, we must confess, Can

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Munich, Indeed Face it, folks. The French, the Germans, and, now, the Belgians have done the remarkable. It takes a perverse sort of genius to sandbag, ambush, and rile SecState one week, only to rile, ambush, and sandbag SecDef the next. Why, Our Trusty Allies have done more to unify all factions within the Administration than, well, anyone since OBL, the late unlamented. Yet they have

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Move Along, Folks. Nothing to See Here. ... Yet. But soon enough. (And, my! Won't the Quai d'Orsay be surprised!)

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