A couple of great bleats from Lileks over the last couple of days. Yesterday's was on Geraldo and the Arab media. Before it gets serious near the end, it has this perfect parody of Geraldo rhetoric:
It was here, in what is now considered hallow ground, that brave men faced unimaginable odds to win what will hereafter be known as “The Battle of the Can Openers,” when fourteen of America’s finest struggled to prepare meals using that one weird tool on a Swiss Army Knife. I am reminded of the words of the great statesman Winston Churchill, when he said “we will fight them on the beaches.” Even though this plain is hundreds of miles from the ocean, it was a beach millions of years ago, before geological events of unimaginable violence changed the world as we know it forever - leaving us these fossilized trilobites as a reminder than in war, sometimes the bones are the only living witnesses - witnesses whose demand for justice still echoes like the gunfire that would have cracked this peaceful dawn if there had, in fact, been a battle.