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Monthly Archives: December 2011
What the Truth-Seeker Finds – Homeland’s Finale
Truth destroys the truther, because self-annihilation is on some level what he or she was truly seeking all along, and, within the fictional narrative, is the same thing.
Posted in Miscellany, TV, War Tagged with: Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Homeland, Season Finale, Trutherism, War on Terror
Sacred Fascist Fount – now on video (you asked for it, Mr. Miller)
Greater or anyway historically more significant minds than Hitch’s have succumbed to the same temptation, and the assertion from any of us “I would never” is always premature.
Not Quite Right Between the Eyes
Put the video after the jump, because someone picked a “splash” image that’s a little too memento mori for me to hit the wayward visitor with it right between the eyes. (Am I wrongfully denying you a shock to which…
Legacy of the Iraq War…
The beliefs to which the end of the Cold War gave rise — liberal democracy triumphant, globalization as the next big thing and American dominion affirmed by a new way of war — have all come to rest in that unmarked grave reserved for failed ideas. Those who promoted and persisted in the Iraq war wielded the shovel that helped dig the hole. This defines their legacy.
Who would mourn the WreckBrow?
…I’m thinking it’s coming time to retire the “Wreck Brow.” If you want to recommend something, you know how to do it: Put up a quick post, as an “aside “or not. If you really want to make it easy…
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Per Request (Part 1)
Posted in Own Stuff