You can see it now. Chaos. Looting. Disorder. Losing the peace. It’s not that there won’t be some truth to these stories; and real cause for concern. The pent-up fury, frustration and sheer anger of three decades is a powerful thing, probably impossible to stop immediately without too much force. And the last thing we want is fire-power directed toward the celebrating masses. The trouble is that they could become the narrative of the story, especially among the usual media suspects, and erode the impact and power of April 9. By Sunday, or sooner, you-know-who will probably have a front-page “news analysis” that will describe the joy of liberation being transformed into the nightmare of a Hobbesian quicksand of ever-looming cliches. Speaking of whom …
… BAKED APPLE: The only good thing about R. W. Apple still producing his “stories swollen to the point of corpulence with clichés, platitudes, and the most foolish sort of conventional wisdom,” is that Jack Shafer is around to write about them. If this piece doesn’t have you on the floor laughing, then I guess … it’s just me.
The Dish 