For the Love of Oil and Power and Cheney

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White House spokesman Tony Snow addressed the issue Monday, telling reporters that "the one thing I have been amused by is the attempt by some people to say that the president has been rigging gas prices, which would give him the kind of magisterial clout unknown to any other human being."

-- Brad Foss for The Associated Press

Gas prices had suddenly dropped a dollar, and the waggish media has been abuzz with delicious conspiracy stories. The intellectually and philosophically sophisticated among us generally like to eschew conspiracy theories, but I don't know. There are only so many hands on the oil tiller, and Republican fortunes had been looking dramatically downcast. I can see it. Cheney places the call, perhaps going through Halliburton and friends, "Do you really want to see Republicans lose the House, and possibly the Senate? Who loves ya, baby?"

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For the Love of Oil and Power and Cheney

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White House spokesman Tony Snow addressed the issue Monday, telling reporters that "the one thing I have been amused by is the attempt by some people to say that the president has been rigging gas prices, which would give him the kind of magisterial clout unknown to any other human being."

-- Brad Foss for The Associated Press

Gas prices had suddenly dropped a dollar, and the waggish media has been abuzz with delicious conspiracy stories. The intellectually and philosophically sophisticated among us generally like to eschew conspiracy theories, but I don't know. There are only so many hands on the oil tiller, and Republican fortunes had been looking dramatically downcast. I can see it. Cheney places the call, perhaps going through Halliburton and friends, "Do you really want to see Republicans lose the House, and possibly the Senate? Who loves ya, baby?"

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Cormac McCarthy's Road

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In “The Road” a boy and his father lurch across the cold, wretched, wet, corpse-strewn, ashen landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. The imagery is brutal even by Cormac McCarthy’s high standards for despair. This parable is also trenchant and terrifying, written with stripped-down urgency and fueled by the force of a universal nightmare. “The Road” would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.

-- Janet Maslin for The NY Times

I would have to be beginning my library trips soon - FUCK! Going by this glimmering book review, McCarthy has done it again, reaching the heights of Blood Meridian, perhaps even excelling himself. Apparently it is not available at Amazon yet, so one has to wait anyway.

There is just too much good fiction in the world. I still have The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time queued up. But this is the kind of problem I love - such sweet agony.

( Maslin book review )

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Cormac McCarthy's Road

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In “The Road” a boy and his father lurch across the cold, wretched, wet, corpse-strewn, ashen landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. The imagery is brutal even by Cormac McCarthy’s high standards for despair. This parable is also trenchant and terrifying, written with stripped-down urgency and fueled by the force of a universal nightmare. “The Road” would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.

-- Janet Maslin for The NY Times

I would have to be beginning my library trips soon - FUCK! Going by this glimmering book review, McCarthy has done it again, reaching the heights of Blood Meridian, perhaps even excelling himself. Apparently it is not available at Amazon yet, so one has to wait anyway.

There is just too much good fiction in the world. I still have The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time queued up. But this is the kind of problem I love - such sweet agony.

( Maslin book review )

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