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A classic, submitted by the Rash-Son, for your post-Super Bowl delectation. Dave Letterman interviews John Madden.
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Self-aggrandizement at the expense of a greater cause - particularly one characterized largely by voluntarism or charity - has been the bane of people of good will throughout history. For as long as humans have existed on this planet every act of selflessness has been countered by one of selfishness. For every hero there is a coward. For every Nathan Hale there is a Benedict Arnold.
It used to be the mantra that one became a government worker out of a sense of both civic pride and a willingness to sacrifice what could have been a higher salary in the private sector for a lower salary but greater job security in the public sector. Truth is that ever since JFK signed the executive order permitting government workers to unionize in 1962, working for Uncle Sam has little to do with civic pride and everything to do with a competitive salary and a benefits/retirement package that private sector employees can only dream about.
After reading an excellent article in The Independent regarding the ongoing feud between Christopher Hitchens and Gore Vidal (talk about pots and kettles accusing each other) I perused the comment section and came across this classic that is deliciously worthy of Fisking.
Holy Moly, it's the mother of all historical and archaeological discoveries. The Ark of the Covenant? Nope. Hammurabi's Tablets with all his laws intact? Nah. A fully intact version of the original Magna Carta? Pfffft. Trifles...all of them mere trifles. No my friends, this discovery by far surpasses anything uncovered by researchers since Tutankhamen's tomb.
*** By Guest Blogger Kingsjester ***
Petulant
1 : insolent or rude in speech or behavior
2 : characterized by temporary or capricious ill humor
That's certainly what the Drive-Bys are crowing about with regard to the recent batch of unemployment statistics recently released by the gummint. Not more than a week has passed since the Man-Child delivered his State of Obama address in which he promised there "will be more jobs" and, mirabile dictu, the jobless rate has fallen from 10.2% to 9.7%.