| schristi ( @ 2009-01-06 10:35:00 |
| Current music: | "silent weekend" |
Another Reactionary Move by Roanoke Times
...Leonard Pitts is on vacation / Roanoke Times asks itself, "what would William White do?" voila, they sub the Pitts column with one by Colorado prostitute and Fifth Columnist Jay Ambrose.
[ Not beholden to Atlantean phantasy, I offer these reflections on P.M. Arthur Balfour in its stead:
He was in the grip of a "whetted" interest and an unsatisfied "curiosity"; it sounds like a young girl's romantic feeling about love. He had not been elected to decide what "debt" Christianity owed to Judaism, or if he decided that one was owing, to effect its repayment, from a third party's funds, to some canvasser professing title to collect. If there were any identifiable debt and any rational cause to link his country with it, and he could convince the country of this, he might have had a case. Instead, he decided privately that there was a debt, and that he was entitled to choose between claimants in favour of a caller from Russia, when the mass of Jews in England repudiated any notion of such a debt. History does not tell of a stranger thing. ]