Over six years ago this made a dent in my noggin...

I thought I would dust off one of my favorite Mark Steyn quotes that seems rather relevant today. He first leveled it in a National Post piece back in November of 2002. For some reason, the National Post didn't hold onto it for posterity and you'll stumble on their "Sorry, this article is no longer available" page. However, here's the quote. It made an impression such that I remember it to this day:

"Democrats have perfected the art of being simultaneously maudlin and vicious, and above all else ruthlessly partisan in their pious denunciations of partisanship."
--- MARK STEYN November 3, 2002

The reference was commentary by rather partisan politicians at Paul Wellstone's memorial service. You can absorb the whole thing, these days, in the Freerepublic archives. But, that quote is the one that left a mark...and applies in full to the Democrats of today.

This is a paragraph of disturbing truth (Mark Steyn)

And that was before Obama made clear that for him the economy takes a very distant back seat to the massive expansion of government for which it provides cover. That’s why he’s indifferent to the plummeting Dow. The president has made a strategic calculation that, to advance his plans for socialized health care, “green energy,” and a big-government state, it’s to his advantage for things to get worse. And, if things go from bad to worse in America, overseas they’ll go from worse to total societal collapse. We’ve already seen changes of government in Iceland and Latvia, rioting in Greece and Bulgaria. The great destabilization is starting on the fringes of Europe and working its way to the Continent’s center.

Mark Steyn takes a 12 pound, hickory handled, double face sledge hammer and nails a thumb tack dead center.

He only mentions Russia ("oligarchic industrial-scale kleptomania") as an aside to show example of Eastern Europe's fragility to economic difficulties...but they are in supreme disarray. They had resorted to arresting protestors as far back as January over something as innocuous as car tax demonstrations in a tiny port town. In short, the Kremlin is running scared of what could develop as the proverbial bread lines return.

"It's only a flesh wound..."

Are you perhaps beginning to get a glimmer of a clue as to why I don't want to be your Facebook friend? Interestingly, even the aforementioned Messrs Hari and Greenwald, while continuing to find me vile and disgusting, regard as an abomination the so-called "human rights" suits you supported. But perhaps you'd genuinely find it less distressing if I stopped calling you "Professor Waggy-Finger" and instead tried to get you kicked out of Ryerson and made it illegal for you to practice whatever the hell it is you practice anywhere in Canada. If so, just say the word.

Mark Steyn kills me...

John Miller (professor of Journalism at Ryerson) keeps getting his posterior handed to him in pieces, while his torso rolls around on the ground, all the while professing that it is "only a flesh wound."

One of my journalism professors had to leave mid-term quite involuntarily when I earned my degree. It seems he was selling cocaine out of his apartment at the time, and the local authorities suggested that he stop (eventually assisting in that endeavor). Being an opportunist, I threw together a solid piece covering the arrest for the school paper that put the local "real" papers to shame.

It was shortlived, however. The replacement professor...one of those John Miller types...drew an inverted pyramid on the blackboard and asked in a condescending tone if anyone could possibly understand the significance.

I might have contributed to the response by stating that it was "the sign of a satanic Mason." Whatever I said got me tossed...and confirmed that some folks just don't have a sense of humor.

Note to self...

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Never say, do, or imply anything negative towards Mark Steyn. (This is a proper Fisking).