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*** Moral of the story? Never trust someone that aggressively clings to a lie as big as Communism.

*** The new Star Wars unsuitable for children? "Sweet," I say.

*** Heh. In related news, I hear there's talk of reanimating Benny Hill's corpse for a new run of the series.

*** Yes:

Human nature being what it is, I like reading sharp, conclusion-heavy punditry as much as the next guy. Nothing beats being told you are right and your critics are wrong. Mark Steyn and Charles Krauthammer have made quite a career out of that sort of thing on the Right; John Pilger and Robert Scheer have made careers out of it from the Left; Thomas Friedman has made a career out of switch-hitting.

At some point, though, the frisson of reinforcement wears off, and I'm reminded that the world is not entirely predictable. In fact, it's quite unpredictable, and all of this punditry is merely educated guess-work, informed by what information gets through each journalists selection biases. That is to say, we hear what we want to hear, and we often reach the conclusions we want to reach.

It's arrogant and false to unequivocally state that all of those that came to an opposing view on something as multifactorial as the invasion of Iraq were stupid or naturally wrong. We're all just making informed plays on stocks here.

That being said, especially with regard to foreign policy, many on the left have been metaphorically backing pork bellies and haberdasheries, whereas many on the right have been pushing energy and biotechnology. I know which play I'd rather make.

UPDATE: Bellissima!

[Lights go down. The set is lit only by two spotlights that look like the headlights of the waiting car]

Hamid [Singing]: Into the night, into the dark she goes.

Mujhadeen Chorus: Into the danger, into only what Allah knows.

Hamid: Little Sgrena goes to face the Yanks.

Mujahdeen Chorus: To face their guns, to face their tanks.

[Car sound grows and then fades outs]

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