No wonder Rumsfeld is worried. And, once again, the Iranian connection is foremost.
CLASSIC INSULTS: Of course, you can’t beat Shakespeare. Here’s a classic from King Lear:
OSWALD What dost thou know me for?
KENT A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
Now tell us what you really think.
BIAS WATCH: Who on earth wrote the headline for this AP story from Atlanta?
Update: they changed it. The original headline was: “Bush gets mixed reception at black school.”
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another’s throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.” – Thomas B. Macaulay, “Milford’s History of Greece” 1824.
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