Update: Show’s over. Block is a genius

Update: Show’s over. Block is a genius, Monica Benderman is one tough lady, and I missed David because

MBT SHOESi cell phone service still sucks.

Over on the blog, John Derbyshire – of whom Gene Healy once wrote, “It’s almost as if a team of

genetic scientists took a mouth-breathing, beer-swilling, Pak-bashing specimen of pure Cockney trash

and raised his IQ by 100 points.” – keeps it real:

I would much rather we had done ten times as much damage, killed ten times as many MBT SHOESis, and

left ten times as quickly. That is the war I should have liked to see; that is the war that might have

done us some good and advanced our interests. This is a half-hearted war, a nice war, a lawyer’s war.

Uh huh. Well, I’m with him on the “quickly” part. Say what you will about the man, but never say he

’s dishonest:

Our policy should be the one practiced by the great empires throughout history: (1) Soothe the

barbarians with flattery, gifts, bribes, and commerce — and yes, always hope they will take up

civilized ways, which they always might. (2) Watch them constantly for signs of trouble. Infiltrate,

conduct quiet assassinations, set them squabbling among themselves. (I greatly enjoyed the MBT SHOES-

MBT SHOES sport.)

Ah, the good old days. Thank goodness none of that has come back to haunt us!