Wednesday, December 10, 2003

 
Nads for Jewry
Or: Sly and The Family Stones
Or: The Hugh Hefners of Herefordshire
Or: "Arrrr....that be not me peg leg, Matey!"

Well, Derbyshire has his Sly's Greatest Movie Moment, and I guess I gots mine (with a little help from Google): In the movie "Bananas" Stallone plays a thug on a subway (as uncredited as the the above Shaolin Shropshire Lad in a martial arts flick) who mugs a little old lady while Woody Allen(no Goetz, Bernie, he) cowers behind a copy of *Commentary.*(Not as funny, to be sure, as the scene wherein the Woodster tries to bury a porno mag in a pile of more circumspect journals at a checkout register only to be mortified by "Hey Ralph, how much is a copy of 'Orgasm?!?'")Upon viewing the subway scene the thought arose that it might be an inside the Borscht Belt snide aspersion on the courage of Commentary's readers-and later, a presaging of the "chickenhawk' slurs about the Vast Neoconservative Conspiracy.
Now would be a good time to rail against what is arguably a neoconservative strategy of bringing democracy to arabs and against an Israeli tactic of *targeted* killings and to argue brilliantly in favor of deterence, mass slaughter, population transfers and so on..And incidentally, taking tacks diametrically opposed to the Corner Post of Andrew Stuttaford,(whose prodigious ouptut is no doubt, on the whole, greatly appreciated by many)"LEARNING FROM THE BEST"-except that it *is* too late and I'm too lazy.
But not too late to note, for those who get Bevis&Butthead heh-hehs from the chastity of bdelloid rotifers an article on page 1645 of the 5 December 2003 issue of Science, "Gutsy Fossil Sets Record for Staying the Course." : "The 425-million-year-old fossil preserves a jaw-dropping amount of detail, including gracile limbs used for swimming and the oldest penis in the fossil record." The 5 cm. fossil, dug up in Herefordshire U.K., is "peg[ged]...as a member of a living family called the Cylindroleberididae....[which demonstrates an] unbelievable stability...The creatures name is Greek [Colymbosathon ecplecticos] for 'amazing swimmer with a large penis.'"
-Haven't he foggiest if the Derbinator reads this blog, but am reasonably certain that he read Paul Craig Roberts piece on VDARE before his Corner post reply to Rich Lowry about job loss 'n creation.
And regarding Mr. Lowry's bit about Wes Clark's blinking, it's too bad that a reporter didn't face the camera with a look of exhaustion and exasperation and blink out, ala U.S. POWs held by the North Vietnamese, Morse code for T- O- R -T- U- R- E.....
Hmmm......Winken, Blinken and Sod...nah, that doesn't work here and makes me think of "The little toy soldier is red with rust,
And his musket moulds in his hands.." Dad used to read it to us kids and dammit, it still makes me blub...May the Hairy Thunderer keep my kids safe and do what he can for our guys in uniform....