Driftglass Hits a High Hard One, With "And What Would You Know About Love, Mr. Giuliani?" Sacrifice Fly

• Speeding up the game.  Uh-huh.  We'll see.
• Driftglass diagnoses Post Iraq Memory Pandemic among proponents of the war:

  Post Iraq Memory Pandemic -- or PIMP -- is a much more rarefied condition than PTSD, which seems to strike mostly well-fed, sanctimonious pundits, Iraq War architects, college Republicans and a whole warped menagerie of Conservatives bloggers who spent the war as far as humanly possible from any actual combat, while exhorting War, Inc. to continue shoveling the nation's blood and treasure down the rat-hole of their fantasies of empire.
  
  Like PTSD, PIMP destroys the capacity of the afflicted to perceive history and linear time, but in a much more selective and specific way. For example, those who mounted up on their Very High Horses to demand in the name of Patriotism that other people's children be sent off to fight and die for their failed imperial dreams now just...can't...seem...to...remember whole swaths of recent American history.
  
  They cannot remember what they wrote. What they said on the teevee.

  Remember that war is an intelligence test, and if people (I use that term loosely) who favor going to the proposed war do not in fact put their own bodies on the line, there is probably a con job going on, and going to war is a Bad Idea.
• Wayne Barrett (Rudy G's biographer) on Mr. Giuliani's latest attempt to impugn President Obama's patriotism.  (NY Daily News, via News From Me.)  That may play among ignorant Republicans, Mr. G, but New. Yorkers. remember. you.  [ETA:  I should have known: The Rude Pundit quotes Mr. Obama and has a few words for Mr. G.]

Also, GUNG HAY FAT CHOY!