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"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)
What this represents is not lack of talent but rather a complete and total failure of nerve. A decision to only make choices that require no struggle whatsoever. Go along with the insider expectations and they won't rock the boat.
ReplyDeleteThis lack of a willingness to stand up, except very rarely, is my primary frustration with that administration. They stood up, pretty much, on health care (although allowed it to be dinged up pretty badly). What else have they fought for?
Fighting isn't bipartisan, NMC.
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