I think I have died and gone to irony heaven. Or maybe irony hell. That might explain the conversation going on in the corner.
Soren Kierkegaard: It's infinite, absolute negativity.
Alanis Morissette: It's like rain on your wedding day.
Soren Kierkegaard: Infinite negativity.
Alanis Morissette: Rain on you wedding day.
Soren Kierkegaard: I can't even talk to you when you get like this.
Blaise Pascal: It's the eternal silence of the infinite spaces.
Soren Kierkegaard: No, it isn't.
Where was I? Oh yes, IRONY HEAVEN: Oliver North is back in Nicaragua because...because the Nicaraguan people "have suffered enough from the influence of outsiders."
I almost peed myself.
It betrays the paucity and the rigidity of much neocon thought that the reelection of Daniel Ortega is causing hysterical (and entirely speculative) fear-mongering about WMD at our back door.
News flash: the Cold War is over. Don't you all remember taking credit for it?
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