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| Is this a great country or what? |
| 2002-04-18 |
| I love this country. I really do. This is a nation that draws its greatness from silliness. Seven months ago we were treacherously attacked by murderous international religious fanatics. We fought a war and dismantled a regime whose innate evil was up there with the medium worst - not Genghis Khan, or Hitler or Attila the Hun, but maybe on a par with Vlad the Impaler. We've put troops in three other countries and we're preparing to kick the snot out of Saddam Hussein, who also isn't up there with Genghis and Adolph, but could rub elbows comfortably with Vlad and Papa Doc. But the Palestinian conflict blew up at just the wrong time, diverting attention from Sammy. What to do to regain the initiative? What to do to divert attention from Jenin and Nablus and Ramallah, to gain that pause needed to restart the preparations to rub out Sammy and Uday and their nasty Tikriti mafia? The same day Israel withdrew its troops from Jenin, what did the US do? They arrested Robert Blake. Church leaders, apparently unable to find the least bit of scriptural guidance, dithered over the problem of how to handle priests who diddle little boys, little girls, sheep, goats, ostriches, Shetland ponies or giant squid. Britney and both her breasts are in Australia. Nirvana demands that Courtney Love have her head examined. And Marlon Brando's maid, who worked for him for 14 years without once wearing underwear and somehow bore him three children, is suing him for $100 million. Oh, and they're cancelling Ally McBeal, too. And Binny thinks his piddlin' attacks damaged us? We haven't changed a bit. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |