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Written by Sinclair Davidson
December 3rd, 2012 at 4:19 pm
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
— H.L. Mencken
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In the spirit of Pedants’ Corner … isn’t the countdown for Christmas Advent?
Pyrmonter
3 Dec 12 at 4:53 pm
About time. How adorable is she! But note initials …JG
Judith Sloan
3 Dec 12 at 5:36 pm
Bah! Humbug!
manalive
3 Dec 12 at 8:20 pm
While on the topic, I’ve taken to Dickens’s novels in my declining years and highly recommend them (for what it’s worth) for the very funny insights into everlasting human folly, in particular his early novels The Pickwick Papers and Martin Chuzzlewit.
They are all delightful, if you ignore or skip over the nauseatingly sentimental passages in his later works and make allowances for the never explicit antisemitic undertones in some of his characters — although the hypocrisy of Christian do-gooders is also a frequent theme.
manalive
3 Dec 12 at 8:57 pm
F–k you if you don’t like Judy Garland.
NSFW. And yes, I’m trolling Snic’s gooey Christmas thread again. That’s right.
sdog
3 Dec 12 at 9:10 pm
If we’re going to have 25 days of Christmas schmaltz, at least chuck a couple of Boney M‘s in there…
papachango
3 Dec 12 at 9:46 pm