tout est different!

I've learned a lot of things during the last 4 years of keeping this blog. One of the lessons I'll never forget is that Liz leans slightly toward Hendrik Hertzberg, while I lean away, thinking, "All writing should be like this, it shouldn't deserve praise. Plus the essay in Politics where Hertzberg writes about how he's finally matured enough to understand that he deserves all of his success is unattractive." Secondly, I learned that, regarding Bernard-Henri Levy, I let my judgment err on Levy's side, while Liz is dismissive and resistant, closing her mind and attempting to shut down any dissenting voices by means of fear and violence.

Here are related videos:

BHL on Sarah Palin:


Hendrik Hertzberg on moments of soberness and whimsy on the campaign trail:

France: Shaving its Head to Cover Up the Balding

If you're looking for more proof that France is going through the nation-state equivalent of a midlife crisis, and is committed to acting it out on the world stage while the rest of us awkwardly avert our eyes, check out Bernard-Henri Levy’s weird obituary for Bhutto .

They have killed a woman. A beautiful woman. A visible, indeed a conspicuously, spectacularly visible woman.

A woman who made a point not only of holding rallies in one of the world's most dangerous countries, but did so with her face uncovered, unveiled--the exact opposite of the shameful, hidden women, the condemned creatures of Satan, who are the only women tolerated by these apostles of a world without women.

Cool obit, BHL, for real…but maybe you should stick to writing books that explain the essence of America?
Oh wait, you suck at that.
Vive la republique!