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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

What Is It About George W. Bush...

...that makes you want to serve him?" This is what Monica Goodling and her conservative cohorts at the Department of Justice asked candidates for posts. No comment here, although the question would have been appreciated in a imaginary lost chapter of Tolkien, wherein a bureaucracy of Trolls pose the question to the men of Haradrad as to why they wish to serve Sauron in his quest for dominance. I mean, is it his all-seeing eye that makes you want to serve him? Is it the neo-industrial, beijing-like clouds of smoke and haze that envelop his domain? The blasphemous ambience of the question, as well as the carnivorous sarcasm that comes from seeing it written down, accompanied by the knowledge of what has happened since the question was uttered, instills absolute silence...

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