Thursday, July 28, 2011

Into the Valley of Death

Into the Valley of Death Rode the Six Hundred. Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.

What kind of romantic nonsense have the Tea Party types been reading? Are they like the colonels who ordered their troops into a suicide attack, because they had bought their commissions and were incompetent? Or are they like Sir Joseph. the "ruler of the Queen's Navy" in H.M.S. Pinafore, who never thought of thinking for himself at all.

None of these characters, however, had the power to drag a whole nation into disaster with them.

It must be a heady brew for eighty or so ignorant young idealogues.

Certitude unsupported by facts.

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