Doghouse Riley has an excellent post up. I’m not quite sure how he did it, but he managed to equate the Republicans and their allegiance to Bush’s Iraq strategy with the implosion of the Marsh supermarkets. And then he busts loose with this:
Of course you can’t just blow off a business the way you can 225 years of national reputation, rule of law, and concepts of truth and honor, so there was a period of suitorhood when Marsh tried to preserve its vanity by finding, in succession, a White Knight, a Handsome Millionaire, a Still-Handsome Middle-Aged Guy with ED, and finally a 70-Year-Old Goaty Guy with a recurring bit part on Law and Order, before giving up the game entirely, shaving its snatch, getting a boob job and an Eva Gabor wig and cruising truck stops. Or so one imagines.
Some writing is informative. Some is merely a pleasure to read for its own sake. This is both.
Not since Hunter S. Thompson’s stuff from the 1980’s have I so enjoyed reading political/social commentary.