Thursday, December 31, 2009

To Every Season


When I imagine George F. Will writing a column, I imagine it goes a little something like this. He rises from a coffin full of his native Illinoisan soil, gazes across the wide bedroom to his wife in her twin bed and sleeping cap, cinches his bowtie, drinks seven gin-and-tonics, and tells his PA to finish the column by the time he returns from his daily session of whipping Latina whores in the special dungeon Fred Hiatt maintains for him underneath the US Naval Observatory.

But if you want to see what a George F. Will column would be like if he got up, performed a linked series of sun salutations, drank an acai smoothie, kissed his power crystal, smoked a doob, and put on some Peter Paul and Mary, well, Merry Christmas.

28 comments:

Mr.Fundamental said...

Far out. Far fuckin' out.

Montag said...

what the fuck does the constitution have to do with anything? what the fuck are you talking about?

Justin said...

Wow, what an astonishing article. That shit at the end about the Constitution... I reread that a half dozen times. Holy!

Jim Wetzel said...

" ... gazes across the wide bedroom to his wife in her twin bed and sleeping cap, cinches his bowtie, drinks seven gin-and-tonics, and tells his PA to finish the column by the time he returns from his daily session of whipping Latina whores in the special dungeon Fred Hiatt maintains for him underneath the US Naval Observatory."

You sir, are simply the best.

Anonymous said...

Have to agree. That first paragraph was so good it made me cry.

NutellaonToast said...

I am having a very difficult time picking out my favorite paragraph in will's article there. don't know how yuo guys do it

Eric said...

What the heck is his point? That the earth's geo-ecology doesnt matter, because man will not be wiped out even if 98% of his population is, along with 90% of other species?

Great.

Man will rise again, with new thoughts, new poets -- who will finally treat in fine our lovely urban-adapted birds like the starling, the pigeon, the herring gull.

Anonymous said...

What an asshole.

Eric said...

I like, dig the dude generally and whatnot. Generally when I read his ideas I was like, dude can I snag that?

He did think that male homoism was non-biodeterministic. That was kind of risible. How many have supposedly gone hetero in the anglosphere, like 10 out of 30 million?

Cüneyt said...

If this had been written by anyone else without Will's, ahem, track record, we'd call it hippy-dippy shit. That is, indeed, hippy-dippy shit. I have no idea what he's saying, and I'm tempted to get high just so I can see if I figure it out then. Of course, I won't, but it's an excuse.

Happy New Year, IOZ, and all you far out kids.

Enron said...

Maybe someone slipped some peyote in with the Beefeater.

fledermaus said...

I was suspecting some infused gin from Amsterdam. Everyone is wrong about the 1st paragraph the best comes next:

"But there is much more space than there is stuff in space: If there were only three bees in America, the air would be more crowded with bees than space is with stars."

Anonymous said...

I like how he insinuates that the constitution is still a politically relevant document. Very cute.

ts said...

Happy New Year all!

Anonymous said...

C'mon, don't be so hard on him folks. We can actually reconstruct the underlying outline that he must have used to compose this piece:
1) The Universe is really big, so it has a lot of stuff in it but is mostly empty.
2) The dinosaurs are dead, maybe because a big asteroid or two killed them.
3) Global warming happened once before, a long time before there were even people and was a lot worse then than what we are talking about now.
4) The US constitution is still around.
5) Q.E.D.

Soj said...

Zinger!

zencomix said...

The hash brownies at the office Christmas party can bring out The Carl Sagan from the tightest of assholes.

Anonymous said...

the constitution abides

Anonymous said...

So this is what a conservative acid flashback comes to....musing about what is "beyond" the edge of the universe....dear god, how is it that kooks like George Will rule us?

It must be something to do with that Newtie Constitution thingie.

Eric said...

Whatever. Will is the most (right-)libertarianish bigtime pundit we have. He's also the smartest and best, if you leave Buchanan out of account due to his strength coming primarily from aberrant hardline anti-PCism.

Almost anyone is likely to have a few dumb views.

TGGP said...

Krugman is quite smart in terms of sheer brainpower. He's just lowered his intellectual standards a lot, making for many opportunities for games of Krugman vs Krugman.

Cüneyt said...

He's a partisan Republican hack, Eric.

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Eric said...

Didnt he dis the Bushmaster fairly early and often? Plus hes a small-gov man, which today is counter the GOP's acts, though it may still sort of align with their talking points -- sort of.

Cüneyt said...

He dissed Bush the way libbloggers dis Obama. "If he knows what he's doing, he'll do this." Will is in the pocket.

Anonymous said...

Great post, wonderful images of Will. Loved Will's article too, which puts me in mind of Douglas Adams:
"Space is big. You just won't
believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."

And finally:
"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."

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He dissed Bush the way libbloggers dis Obama. "If he knows what he's doing, he'll do this." Will is in the pocket.