Shorter David Brooks, "Freedom Loses One", New York Times, 2 April 2013:
So, Sodomites, you really want to get married? How very Burkean of you. Join the PTA and Opus Dei while you're up, too. And a bowling league. Won't you be the hip little things.
I know, I know, I used to wonder why they wanted to be allowed to be generals and archbishops. It's really all about the drag, I suppose. Nothing whatever to do with human dignity or asserting an actual social existence as opposed to just being part of the Brooksian decor, or any of that Jacobin stuff.
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| "The Regent [Prime Minister Archbishop Nascimos on his visit to C-in-C General Padgett] was supposed to be coming with a retinue of 30 at the most. In fact he arrived with an entourage of perhaps 100, including staff, boy scouts, journalists and a personal bodyguard of 28 Evzones, very picturesque in their quaint skirts, white tights, and shoes with huge black pom-poms. The regent impressed everyone by his bearing, charm, shrewdness and knowledge. Not so his staff who, to put it mildly, were 'sloppy'." (John Dearfield) |
I was thinking of doing another post about this insane column, but Matt Taibbi has dealt with it pretty aptly, if earnestly, and I'd like to go think about something else.
