"But That Was Long Ago, in Another Country"

[On the Road]

Echoes of the Bush administration from Brad deLong's Blog:"

Theodore White once wrote:

The Americanists whom Chiang chose to man the facade of his government were, in retrospect, like the panel of a modern electronic system. When one pushed buttons, lights winked. But the wires in back led nowhere, the switchboard did not connect to the operations system.

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/

[rogerashton]

1. But that was in another country, and besides the wench is dead.

One of the Henriad plays. Bardolph? Pistol?

[On the Road]

2. Sounds Like Something I Should Know

but I don't. :) :shrug:

[rogerashton]

3. I am mistaken.

Marlowe's The Jew of Malta:

FRIAR BARNARDINE. Thou hast committed--

BARABAS. Fornication: but that was in another country;
And besides, the wench is dead.


http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/plays/TheJewofMalta/chap5.html

Issunt Google Wunnaful?

[On the Road]

4. You are a Gentleman and a Scholar

Never read The Jew of Malta. I wonder if that was BdL's reference?

[tom_paine]

5. That exactly what I say when asked about the Old American Republic

"But That Was Long Ago, in Another Country"

A Free Country. A Country that had reason to be Proud.

Now we are just another bunch of sad Third-World Bootlickers (at least until we've shown that we have the strength, courage andresolve to throw these Totalitarian Orwellian Vampires off our collective neck)