My friend Dr. Demarche is back blogging from a new diplomatic assignment at his secret rebel base official station somewhere in the Third World. Doc actually prefers these kinds of places to the more "advanced" posts. Liked this point, too:
"I have always been impressed by the people of these struggling places, and almost never impressed by their governments. Herein lies the problem. We, that is the government of the United States, deal with governments, most of which the world over (the Third World, anyway) are dysfunctional."
Validating your existence as requested, Doc. Good blogging to you.
[Marshal "Smokin' Joe Katzman: comment that had nothing to do with post deleted]
What in God's name are you talking about?
When you find out, Dan, clue me in.
Well, he's quoting the lurker quote at the top of my post, except that this isn't my post, it's a post on the Daily Demarche returning. Either way this BDS afflictee isn't making much sense - characterizing the government as fascist and then bemoaning its ineffectual response?
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[Marshal "Smokin' Joe Katzman: sorry I'm late to this one, Dan - but I'm going to remove all of the back and forth and leave this thread to relevant posts. As you yourself point out in your close...]
Thank goodness you warned us in time! Now if only there could be some peripheral relation between the point that the Daily Demarche was making...
Hmm, well if not a relevant remark, here at least is a relevant hyperlink. Theodore Dalrymple wrote a memorable essay on his experience as a physician in Rhodesia a while back, reprinted at the online WSJ:
An excerpt from the middle:
Read the...