Other Voices, Other Rooms

Since I am in the midst of the spring decluttering (the Augean Stables?  Hah!  Easy!), here are some words by other people that particularly struck me this morning (outside of the discovery that the ballyhooed space my alma mater was providing for certain activities has proven to be inadequate to the purpose):

• I repeat: Mitt Rommey, do not start a debate about who is more unprincipled, opportunistic, and pandering during this election, because YOU WILL LOSE THAT FIGHT. And YOU WILL LOSE IT EVERY TIME. And the news of your loss will have to be delivered to each of your twelve gold moon mansions, because no one is sure where you live anymore. (That is a metaphor for your ever-changing positions, Mitt Rommey, JUST IN CASE THAT WASN'T CLEAR!)

  Melissa McEwan, Shakesville

• I grew up in a country that envisioned space travel and technology and science and discovery as good things. Today I live in a country that is one step away from burning witches.

  Jill, Brilliant at Breakfast
  

• Here’s a wild-haired tinfoil hat conspiracy theory for you: I have a friend who is convinced that the Obama Administration cut a deal with the Republican Party. The deal was that the GOP would not field any viable presidential candidate in 2012. In return, the Obama Administration wouldn’t prosecute any Bush Administration officials over the faulty intelligence that led to the Iraq War, their use of torture against detainees, etc.

  Southern Beale
  

• In Lawrence O’Donnell’s America, every dumb-ass in the "press corps" would feel free to ask White House candidates about the pronouncements of their church's leaders from hundreds of years in the past. Do you know how stupid this country would be if that was standard practice?
  
  Pope Pius IX was the head of O’Donnell’s church in 1863. Do you know how many ridiculous things he said? Should Candidate Kerry have been quizzed on these matters in 2004?
  
  If Candidate Kerry had been quizzed, what would Lawrence have done?
  
  One more point about the small tiny mind of the instinctive bigot:
  
  O’Donnell complained that Romney’s church didn’t allow blacks to be priests until 1978. O’Donnell’s church doesn’t allow women to be priests right to this very day! Such awkward comparisons will never occur to pieces of work like O’Donnell and Dowd as they display their instinctive bigotry toward The Other’s religion.
  
  Should journalists have hounded Candidate Kerry about this matter? If they had, what would Lawrence have done? Trust us: He would have screamed and bellowed and yelled.

  Bob Somersby, the daily howler
  

And apparently nobody is pointing up this, probably because it got mentioned last year:  The guy whose lies about WMD of Saddam Hussein justified that stupid war in Iraq confessed on BBC2 as part of a program on spies.  (Modern Spies, which may not be visible in the US.)

I got nothing.