May 18, 2005

Barmies of the Night

Norman Mailer, posting on that Huffington thing, wonders whether Isikoff and Newsweek were set up by the US government as part of a Byzantine "counter-espionage" reverse public relations scheme. (I mean "Byzantine" in the figurative sense, though taking it literally would make the theory more interesting and probably just about equally plausible.)

"The toilet," writes Mailer, "is redolent with bad odor." He hasn't lost his touch.

Also on Huffing, this post from one Kathryn Ireland (who is not the famous model, as far as I can tell):

Can anyone tell me, are they going to bring back the draft? I have three sons -- all nearly teenagers -- and am terrified that they will. Why don't they make it that just Republican kids get called up?

UPDATE: sorry - in the excitement I forgot to quote this terrific Mailerism from the same post: "there still resides, however, under my aging novelist's pate a volunteer intelligence agent, sadly manque."

Posted by Dr. Frank at May 18, 2005 05:58 PM | TrackBack
Comments

In one word, Kathryn, "No".

Well, not unless the Democrats have their way, at least.

Posted by: Sigivald at May 18, 2005 08:33 PM