and the few who'd bother to read it -- can't afford to buy an election seat (or keep it funded without morphing into overt blab). Euphemism.. is what we prefer. Offhand I can't imagine a large enough *Shock!* as would alter that preference. Obviously 9/11 didn't. Yet.

Try again. Maybe after?
the first preemptive strike on Satan the Iraqi guy - offs a few hundred schoolkids, the Chinese Embassy and 2000 random folks in a shelter Command Center -- all in digital color Tee Vee with Dolby stereo + closeups of a few dozen arms and legs. Most only a foot long..

Right now.. I think Shrub's on a roll.. like those caissons from The Field Artillery Song.


Ugly ugly ugly


Ashton

OT - Doug, ever encounter a book written in winter '36-37 by Hermann Rauschning, The Revolution of Nihilism [subtitled, Warning to the West] ?? No idea what publishing run was, or Euro and elsewhere. This copy is an Engl. translation pub. in NYC. It may have had variants on this title, too.

Enthralling (found it just a few days ago in a friend's bookcase). Clearest exposition I've ever seen of the (only seeming) chaos from '33 on, with prescient remarks (pogroms likely to lead to ___ ). I wonder if anyone "in the West" actually read the sucker! <---

A little hi-level political theory but mostly dead-on descriptions and extrapolations which any educated person could grok. (He had once been a Nazi official in the Danzig corridor - he wrote this in Paris after realizing the scam, quitting, fleeing. I now want to discover if he got out of There, before the Gestapo could find him in '40)

It's difficult for me to imagine how any 'State Department' could read this material in '37 and ... not learn Anything useful. [Also and in particular: the Duke of Windsor, who is alleged to have had at least half a mind, along with the testosterone oversupply]