We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:49:36 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Being depressed of late with the state of the world in general and politics in particular, and having an especially depressing email exchange with Owen yesterday - this bit from National Review was actually rather bracing. Today you wrote: "It's hard to be optimistic at all about Iraq..." Optimism is for people who believe in progress — in other words, not conservatives. The world sucks, permanently, but let us do our best to bend its suckiness to our advantage, as that is the most we can hope for. I think we have done that in Iraq, with greater and lesser... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:53:30 -0600 Sorry for being so silent then, Boss. I haven't been living up to court jester of late. Would it help if I stood on my head or ran around yelling yeehaw while stradling a broom? ;) And tell Owen I'm not done with that discussion from a few weeks ago. I just got interupted. I was doing research to counter him when I was interupted, and just haven't gotten back on track yet. Cheer up. It can't rain all the time. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html#comment-49192 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html#comment-49192 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:03:24 -0600 Actually, JTG, it was an emailer (and not Derb) who was responding to K-Lo. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html#comment-49178 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html#comment-49178 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:42:32 -0600 That first quote seems awfully likely to have come from the keyboard of the Derb, one of my favorite people. I dunno, because trying to load from The Corner seems always to lock down my antique browser, these days. Was it he who wrote that? I generally concur with what he writes, and want him to autograph my copy of "Prime Obsession", Sassenach that he is. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html#comment-49176 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html#comment-49176 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:20:10 -0600 Or as a presenter at this liberal-dominated mental health care conference said yesterday, he's positive that Medicare reform would be the administration's top priority if it weren't for that "stupid waste of money in Iraq". While this may be true, it's a matter of "priorities", isn't it? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html#comment-49145 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/heh_its_a_gloomy_day_at_castle_argghhh.html#comment-49145 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:09:58 -0600