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News Briefs 02-05-2011

The bogeyman is dead. Long live the soon-to-be-identified new bogeyman, who’ll justify the next decade of the endless war.

Quote of the Day:

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Mark Twain, Chronicle of Young Satan.

  1. Waylaid and Hogwallowed
    The initial intention this morning was to comment on those animatronic dinosaurs vs. the day when the real deal cracks an egg in a DNA lab and resumes the species’ reign on this planet.

    The science of genetic forensics is one of the fastest expanding fields of research. Chances are better than even that a woolly mammoth will be cloned in our lifetimes. The eventual reappearance of the thunder lizard is but a matter of somewhat more time. And so when it does happen, there will be a number of occupations, one being operator of robotic dinos, that will trade spots for a pedestal in the hall of the extinct.

    But that now being said, I was hard-drawn to the Mark Twain quote at the close of today’s story list. I was also more than pleased to see not a single mention of that stage show that has been all over the news since last evening… even though that particular subject, and the above quote, seem to go happily hand-in-hand to the alter of connectivity.

    I find it entirely fitting.

    1. Bogeyman
      I second the sentiment that the quote of the day is particularly brilliant and well chosen.

      It’s not like we’ll be running out of bogeymen any time soon.

      1. quip and quote
        After all our talks about the hundreds of lackies standing in line to take the place of every killed or captured Mexican drug lord, that intro about bogeymen practically wrote itself.

        But it took me an hour to find the perfect QotD. I was plum delighted when I saw that it came from Mark Twain — still brimming with relevance a hundred years after his death.

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