The Yalta Myth is no longer sufficiently credible to be flammable, and the argument that Roosevelt failed to end the Depression is too foamite-sodden for even so fiendishly persistent and endearing a pyromaniac as the delightful and otherwise rigorous Amity Shlaes to make any headway reigniting it. But, sensing the proximity of tinder with the feral olfactory acuity of a hob ferret detecting the invisible presence of a mate in heat, the Scorch Roosevelt Society has encroached, as softly as bats, on what the Republicans tried, without success, to sell 72 years ago as the “Roosevelt Recession.”An agreeable sentiment, I suppose...
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Word Salad
Conrad Black, writing (surprisingly) from a non-padded cell:
Substance McGravitas said,
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Have you the fortitude to make it past paragraph one of Conrad Black’s latest whatever-it-is?
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I did, I read the whole mess.
It seems like he's calling for public work programs like FDR created, while at the same time licking the likes of Amity Shlaes. Amity Shlaes, like all right-wingers, hates any solutions than don't involve tax cuts for tycoons.
P.S. Amity gradumacated from the same university as meself. But my degree was in Economics, and hers was English. I thereby use an argument from authority to state that she's full of crap.
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Thanks for the heavy lifting. Black's FDR love is an interesting quirk.
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ReplyDeleteI could not read it here, I could not read it there, I could not read past paragraph one of that shit anywhere.
"Usually rigorous Amity Shlaes" was when I checked out, if anyone's keeping score.
It might be that there is no real love for FDR, and just a desire to attack Obama. Or maybe hanging out in Club Fed is altering his world view?
ReplyDeleteI'd rather see Obama put some New Deal style work programs in place then go ahead with his stupid cat food commission.
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Tinder, ferrets, bats...
ReplyDeleteHow many more metaphors can he shoe-horn into the Procrustean bed of that can of worms?
Indeed he has over egged the pudding,fruited the loop, whated the tar.
ReplyDelete...but don't you sometimes just wish you were a hob ferret? (if not a hobgoblin)
ReplyDeleteYou can't fool me, that's one of your Janus node thingummies. You crossed the scripts from a collection of documentaries.
ReplyDeleteWould you read it in a box?
ReplyDeleteConrad Black, the Henhouse Fox
Would you read it on a train
Reading Black brings anal pain
Would you read it on your own?
Good god, you know I'm all alone
And would you read it in DeeCee?
They're lying again, can't you just see?
Scans more like William S. Burroughs... or what tigris said.
ReplyDelete"Foamite-sodden"? Anyone wanna translate that to the King's English?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he misspelled "vomit-sodden".
ReplyDeleteIt's a fire-extinguisher thing.
ReplyDeleteI insist it is a mattress thing. You know, for consistency.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was from the Olde testamente "Lo the Foamites were sore oppressed, because of the thing with the goats and the molasses, which I'm not saying wasn't fun, but God don't like it"
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