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 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:59:56 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification I've got a seat for you in my tent. An excerpt: I'd observed that lust, greed, envy, sloth, and their pals are giving the world a good run for its money, but that nonetheless, people in general seem to get from day to day; and that we in the United States get from day to day under rather wonderful and privileged circumstances—that we are not and never have been the villains that some of the world and some of our citizens make us out to be, but that we are a confection of normal (greedy, lustful, duplicitous, corrupt, inspired—in short,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:54:38 -0600 Zoning! Oh, man, don't get me started! I live in Southern FL, you know. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html#comment-70757 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html#comment-70757 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:23:37 -0600 Great essay. Just great. The comments were enlightening, but hardly surprising. I felt the need to leave one of my own... Thanks, John for that very refreshing interlude! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html#comment-70712 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html#comment-70712 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:53:02 -0600 Yep. Mamet. I once wrote a piece about "This imperfect freedom" and how much I loved it, all the rough and tumble politics, the corruption and fighting, the struggle to get things done... I don't mean that as sarcasm, I meant that perfectly honestly that I loved imperfect freedom because, for all that, we still move along, we weed out most of the worst corrupters, a slow moving government makes less mistakes and, you know, whenever someone gets the "perfect government" it invariably goes very bad. So, yes, welcome David, to the perfect liberty of imperfect freedom. It's the greatest place on earth. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html#comment-70663 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html#comment-70663 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:16:38 -0600 http://www.amazon.com/Accidentally-Joined-Vast-Right-Wing-Conspiracy/dp/0060936975]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html#comment-70653 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/david_mamet_wel.html#comment-70653 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:12:18 -0600