A man with Aids said he would have been dead two years ago had Diana not touched him; a three-year-old visited by Diana while in a coma had a miraculous recovery and has now left his best teddy outside Kensington Palace; a nine-year-old treated for heart disease said that Diana had visited her ten times and had offered to do the family’s washing if they’d just drop it round at the Palace. For some, a world without the Saint was too much to bear: there were reports of at least two “Diana-related” suicides.
No one could doubt the sincerity of the people’s reaction. But their sincerity did not make it any less repellent. The supposedly reserved, bloodless Brits had, like the Princess, swallowed wholesale the vocabulary of American Oprahfied psychobabble, a depressing enough prospect. But they had fused it with the brutish vulgarity of modern British mass culture to create a truly horrible mutant: aggressive empathy. Their message to their Sovereign was in essence: If you can’t come out and feel our pain, we’ll come in and give you some of your own to feel.
Mark Steyn
Kamis, 30 Agustus 2007
Rabu, 29 Agustus 2007
Quote of the day - Melanie Morgan
Strange as it may seem, some of the best things about this country have been our enemies.
Melanie Morgan
Melanie Morgan
Senin, 27 Agustus 2007
Quote of the day - Atlanta Journal-Constitution [Michael Vick]
"As much as he loves football, [Michael] Vick loves dogs."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution [from a 2002 puff piece] [h/t ESPN]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution [from a 2002 puff piece] [h/t ESPN]
Gold and Gold Mines : the Little Big Pictures
StockCharts.com"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning" W. Churchill (November 10, 1942 after the victory of El Alamein)
Minggu, 26 Agustus 2007
Quote of the day - Mark Steyn
At least in Indochina, those who got it so horribly wrong – the Kerrys and Fondas and all the rest – could claim they had no idea of what would follow.
To do it all over again in the full knowledge of what followed would turn an aberration into a pattern of behavior. And as the Sirik Mataks of Baghdad face the choice between staying and dying or exile and embittered evenings in the new Iraqi émigré restaurants of London and Los Angeles, who will be America's allies in the years ahead?
Marl Steyn - August 25, 2007
To do it all over again in the full knowledge of what followed would turn an aberration into a pattern of behavior. And as the Sirik Mataks of Baghdad face the choice between staying and dying or exile and embittered evenings in the new Iraqi émigré restaurants of London and Los Angeles, who will be America's allies in the years ahead?
Marl Steyn - August 25, 2007
Kamis, 23 Agustus 2007
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