Saturday, September 18, 2010
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Another proud member of the irony-based community.
"Mysterious Jackson area lawyer's blog about history, literature, and whatever irks him." -- NMC
"Just a hypersensitive pantywaist probably of Gallic descent who still suffers nightmares over what Gaius Julius did to your people 2,000 years ago." -- Kingfish
And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
-- Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader.""I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much ésprit?"
-- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.... the torturer has become – like the pirate and slave trader before him – hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
-- Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir. 1980)
Somehow someway you will pay for this obnoxiousness.
ReplyDeleteIt's like karma, only worse, and possibly more reliable.
You mean something like this? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/teams/mississippi-st-bulldogs/
ReplyDeleteThey tell me if you are attacked by a wild animal and that if you roll into a small ball and act dead, maybe, just maybe, they'll leave you be.
Let him be NMC, let him be. Karma is what we are reaping right now. That and a weak O-line and a defense that needs to practice against the University of South Panola for a couple of weeks.
Razor
See, the charm of being a Bulldogs fan is that you expect to lose. Victory is a gift, not an entitlement.
ReplyDeleteHaving done a couple of years at State, and become accustomed to that perspective, I was bemused to attend UM Law and find people earnestly discussing how Ole Miss was going to take the SEC that year because it had won its opener against Memphis State or whomever.