Today I woke up in the Bearded Spock Universe! I can think of no other explanation for the fact that Our Betters in Congress have made the extraordinary assertion that slavery in America was the worsest, most awful slavery in history — not only that, it was uniquely bad, utterly unlike the institution of slavery as it was known throughout the history of the human race. Never mind that Western nations were the first to realize that maybe the ownership of human beings by other human beings was wrong and not a basic and necessary underpinning to human society as it was regarded throughout history in just about every country in the world. And still is, in many non-Western countries.
Yep, that’s what we’ve got to look forward to under Great Lord President Obama: four to eight years of this sort of contest to see who can come up with the most complete display of self-abasement. Fun!
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:11 am
Ahh, can reparations be far behind???
Doesn’t matter that all my relatives were still living on The Continent until the early 1900’s–I still share the blame for the actions of people in Africa and the US a couple hundred years ago, right? Give me a break.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:25 am
And behold, in the third year of His apotheosis, She Who Must Not Be Criticised prophesied that He would heal our souls, and lo, it came to pass that He, through his lesser disciples, made the multitudes aware of the failings of their ancestors and thus they were shamed and made penitent.
So endeth the lesson.