By now the three people who read this site should know to read Lileks every day, but if for some inexplicable reason you don’t, go now.
Today it’s mid-life crisis and, well, politics.
I need to do something different. Something besides childrearing and domestic reorganization. Take up the ocarina, perhaps. Write a concerto for the ocarina. Hone my body into a killing machine, infiltrate Iran, and play the ocarina on streetcorners. Team up with a popular TV show guy to invent a new coffee drink, score the commercials for the ocarina, add a Latin beat, and call the tune the Mo Rocca Mocha Ocarina Macarena.
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I understand that [Kerry] defended America by serving in Vietnam.
One question: did Vietnam attack America?
Ah! The Gulf of Tonkin incident and subsequent resolution made it seem as if they had. So he fell for that, as everyone did. He voted to wage war against Iraq because he fell for that, as everyone did. He’s learned. Next time he needs hard proof, like a smoking crater in New York.
Make that another smoking crater in New York.