• Thank the media for blowing up Borat. [Post I.T.]
• Outdoor advertising firms are lining up to sue the city over unfair restrictions on where they can place semi-nude Calvin Klein models. [AdAge]
• The only time Frank Rich got flack for his stance on the Iraq war on his book tour, he was in Manhattan. [Radar]
• Sometimes a reporter looking for sources is just a reporter looking for sources. [DI]
• Kate Moss' drug habit is blowing up Colombian children. Or something like that. [Queerty]
• Even if Steve Wynn couldn't unload that Picaso, a new record artwork sale goes down, courtesy David Geffen. LAT acquisitions war chest grows deeper. [NYT]
• NBC's turmoil has the vultures circling. [TVNewser]
• Starbucks ain't the only shop adept at pushing products outside its core offerings. [NYT]
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Editorial Director
A Neo-Con Battle Chant
-In response to William Kristol’s Column
In Time Magazine: “Give Force a Chance”
Around the cauldron let us march
Howling hosannas to Leo Strauss
And to Plato’s philosopher-kings
Our proud progenitors.
O chant the slogan might makes right
William the Kristol says it clear
Give military force another chance
Yes, Sing American hegemony!
O proud Nietschean Ubermenschen
Toss some tidbits in the stew
Boil a broth of double trouble
For America’s enemies.
The world is dark and Hobbesian
Eternal war of all v. all
Survival of the strong and fittest
Oh glorious Leviathan.
Summon forth war-bloodied eagles
Let them bless our secret brew
Drop in bloody clots of power
Stir the broth anew!
We the chosen intellectual few
Proclaimers of American supremacy
Reject weak-willed diplomacy and
Eschew all talk with enemies.
Glorious midnight Shock and Awe
Oh how Baghdad flamed that night
How we terrified the minions there
Total glorious subjugation!
All Hail Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
Triumvirate of the sneering lips
The Will to Power personified
Means justified by ends.
Let us curse the idiot critics
Darth Vader, Halliburton,
All that rot—and especially
That damned term chickenhawk.
Kneel down now before the cauldron
Raise your arms in certainty
Worship what is true, eternal,
American Manifest Destiny.
Yes, now the time has come again
For bombs to crush unholy targets
Axis of Evil must be vanquished
By agents of God’s dominion.
O dark spirits of the midnight air
Which obfuscate our noblest lies
Of WMD’s and imminent threats
Descend again in darkness.
Hoodwink once more the ignorant sheep
Those too weak to want the truth
And lull the media again to sleep
Those feckless lapdogs!
Yes brethren, circle round the pot,
Breathe in the dark and secret stew
Don the feathers of the hawk—
A New American Century!
Yes! The Age of Neo-Con lives on
Spawned in think tanks of the right
Join hands and circle round the pot
Chant the anthem of The Right:
Hail Plato’s intellectual aristocracy
Hail Machiavellian mendacity
Hail William Kristol simplicity–
Proclaim The End of History!
©RW (Skip) Kistner
4371 E. Campo Bello Drive
Phoenix, Arizona 85032
(602)-615-5310
Permission to print granted.
A Neo-Con Battle Chant
-In response to William Kristol’s Column
In Time Magazine: “Give Force a Chance”
Around the cauldron let us march
Howling hosannas to Leo Strauss
And to Plato’s philosopher-kings
Our proud progenitors.
O chant the slogan might makes right
William the Kristol says it clear
Give military force another chance
Yes, Sing American hegemony!
O proud Nietschean Ubermenschen
Toss some tidbits in the stew
Boil a broth of double trouble
For America’s enemies.
The world is dark and Hobbesian
Eternal war of all v. all
Survival of the strong and fittest
Oh glorious Leviathan.
Summon forth war-bloodied eagles
Let them bless our secret brew
Drop in bloody clots of power
Stir the broth anew!
We the chosen intellectual few
Proclaimers of American supremacy
Reject weak-willed diplomacy and
Eschew all talk with enemies.
Glorious midnight Shock and Awe
Oh how Baghdad flamed that night
How we terrified the minions there
Total glorious subjugation!
All Hail Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
Triumvirate of the sneering lips
The Will to Power personified
Means justified by ends.
Let us curse the idiot critics
Darth Vader, Halliburton,
All that rot—and especially
That damned term chickenhawk.
Kneel down now before the cauldron
Raise your arms in certainty
Worship what is true, eternal,
American Manifest Destiny.
Yes, now the time has come again
For bombs to crush unholy targets
Axis of Evil must be vanquished
By agents of God’s dominion.
O dark spirits of the midnight air
Which obfuscate our noblest lies
Of WMD’s and imminent threats
Descend again in darkness.
Hoodwink once more the ignorant sheep
Those too weak to want the truth
And lull the media again to sleep
Those feckless lapdogs!
Yes brethren, circle round the pot,
Breathe in the dark and secret stew
Don the feathers of the hawk—
A New American Century!
Yes! The Age of Neo-Con lives on
Spawned in think tanks of the right
Join hands and circle round the pot
Chant the anthem of The Right:
Hail Plato’s intellectual aristocracy
Hail Machiavellian mendacity
Hail William Kristol simplicity–
Proclaim The End of History!
©RW (Skip) Kistner
4371 E. Campo Bello Drive
Phoenix, Arizona 85032
(602)-615-5310
Permission to print granted.