. . . in the slow moments of my temp job.
Lileks watches 9/11 documentary:
It says something about America that you can’t blow up an average skyscraper without killing people of every race and creed on the planet.
It says something about America’s critics that fighting Arab Islamists is automatically racist — and the murder of diverse peoples by an ethnically homogenous group is explained as a response to . . . racist American policies.
Lileks explains practical socialism:
(It’s always okay to kill lower-case people on behalf of upper-case People. Class warfare always involves a lot of case warfare.)
Lileks on presidential language:
in the entirelty of Bill Clinton’s career he issued an endless stream of soggy bloviation, and the only three lines for which he will be remembered — “The era of big government is over,” “It depends what the meaning of the word is is,” and “I did not have sex with that woman” — were, in turn, insincere, evasive, and dishonest.
Aw come on. What about “We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans”?