What is occuring is a national tragedy. There is no place for flip humor or bravado or bullshit regarding the area.
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian What is occuring is a national tragedy. There is no place for flip humor or bravado or bullshit regarding the area. 33 posted on 11/07/2002 0:07 AM PST by RLKI'll agree it's a national tragedy.
Hell, what is worse, it's a cultural tragedy.
Nations come and go.
That said, Mencken would have laughed. He would have laughed derisively, and ruthlessly -- with a poison pen.
But he would have laughed. It was how he made his points.
Frankly, we could use him now.
Sobran has his place, but so does P.J. O'Rourke.
What is happening is reality, the year is 2002, societies rarely go backwards. The ones that do go backward, or never go forward, end up like the middle-east. Name a democratic westernized country that does not have these problems.