"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

                --Archilochus

Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."

Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."

Albert A. Gore, Jr.:
"An incontinent brute."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."

Friends of GF's Sons:
"Is that really your dad?"

Kickball Girl:
"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."

Hired Hand:
"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."




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Monday, October 03, 2005

New York Times v. Buckley

Herewith the picture accompanying this piece in yesterday's New York Times magazine: the quintessential fulfillment of the so-called "Brooks Rule," to the effect that "any conservative photographed by the New York Times magazine will always be posed with his arms crossed, scowling."

So much for failing to retain creative control. Of course one must not discount the probability that Buckley, being Buckley, himself chose this very picture.

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