"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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in the
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

An excellent clip of Denzel Washington as Malcolm X (wait for the end):



And then there's this (at about 3:05):



Before you get all bent out of shape, oh me little droogies, I've always rather admired Malcolm X. And, truth be told, I increasingly wonder if the best pure politicians of my generation, Billy & Hilly, have met their match in Obama, who may be the best pure politician of his. At least in the short run. And what's more important than that?

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