Monday, December 31, 2007

Steven Weber: Happy New Year.com


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If you've read this blog before, you know I'm a big fan of Steven Weber's writing at The Huffington Post. I don't link to everything he writes, but it might be starting to seem like it. He's been on a roll lately, writing witty yet cynical pieces that sound like something I could have written, were I more talented. Today's piece is no exception. I'll post the part that really jumped out at me. . .

[Excerpt]

Happy New Year.com!

. . .But be heartened: any right wing radio pundit, wall-eyed strategist or ex-congressmen turned talking head who still insists on parsing issues of international law, human behavior, civil liberty or any other polysyllabic concept as so stated in our Constitution in an attempt to justify the last seven years of Bush Co. is at this point merely trying to justify an imminently obsolete occupation: theirs. Because things have become so cartoon-ish, so obvious, so writ in crayon balloon lettering, that nothing less than equally broad responses are what is in store. . .

Read it all at: Huffington Post

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