In today's Strib, J. Winston Porter called Kerry's environmental policies a mish mash. Those are fighting words, these days. We are looking for straight shooters. Hunters would do well to remember that straight shooters usually miss anything that's alive; they do best with stop signs and beer cans.
For the record: this is a country founded by riff raff, consisting of a mish mash of cultures, languages, and geographies. Its claim to honor derives from its historical flip flops: on genocide, on slavery, on Jim Crow, on prohibition, on isolationism, on cultural purity and eugenics.
Years ago, Jacques Barzun did a book called Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers. I bought it, thinking that any decent writing should be "simple and direct," like decent thinking, like clean, Hemingway hero action. But -- go read Faulkner. Just: go read Faulkner.
Posted by shea0017 at October 21, 2004 10:30 AM