i hate it when a person takes some point that i've just tried very hard to express--and used a despairing number of ellipses and ampersands and parentheticals in the process--and says it, not just succinctly, but with greater force of insight than i would get at even if i had my crack squad of intellective monkeys to assist me.
...it's happened to me not infrequently of late, what with the war and the unseemly turnings of politics in general: my rhetoric gets confused. but, like john stewart and his Fake News phenomenon, a lot of times absurdity is best and most cleanly pointed to from the vantage of the absurd. from the Onion:
Last week, troops complained to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about extended deployments and poor equipment. What do you think?
"Years from now, our troops will look back at the war in Iraq and wonder why they haven't been allowed to go home yet."
- Clinton Rhodes, film editor
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