A Few Words About Shrillblog

A few words about Shrillblog:

The Ancient and Hermetic Order of the Shrill is for all of us who have been driven into shrill unholy madness by the mendacity, stupidity, incompetence, recklessness, and idiocy of the Bush administration and its allies. Recent inductees--voluntary and involuntary--include Ginmar, Dexter Filkins, Michael Moss, Eliot Cohen, Burton Lee, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Joe Gandelman.

Should you qualify, your personal copy of the Krugmanomicon (along with additional promotional material containing many valuable offers) will soon be on its way. Do not read more than ten pages a day, under pain of falling even further into shrill unholy madness. When you are in your non-human form, or even if you just believe that you are in your non-human form, remember not to devour any endangered amphibians. We had some... problems with the former regional director of the EPA.

Pray vainly to the dead, uncaring stars at least once a month, preferably when the moon is in the second decant.

The Miskatonic University homecoming, pep rally, barbecue (really don't ask), leaf-watching, and eldritch horror viewing will be held on October 33. Driving directions to picturesque Arkham, Massachusetts will follow. Beware Shoggoths on the road near South Campus at moonrise. On no account allow Yog-Sothoth to divert you from the South Gate to the Nadir Gate.

We continue to work on understanding the fell and arcane mysteries. For example: Richard Cheney. Thirty years ago Richard Cheney was the White House Chief of Staff who ran Gerald Ford's tough-but-fair policy process, and was the best friend of Paul O'Neill. Thirteen years ago Richard Cheney was a determined opponent of America's getting sucked into the Iraqi quagmire. Today?... Well, we all know. What has happened? Replaced by a fell servitor beast casting a hypnotic glamour? Controlled by implants from afar implanted by uebermenschen escaped from a Charlie Stross novel? Or was his mind sucked out and replaced by the mere act of reading the dread Book of PNAC?

Comments

[ajay]

"Or was his mind sucked out and replaced by the mere act of reading the dread Book of PNAC?"

That should, of course, refer to the Pnakotic Fragments.

In reference to the VP, you may want to consider Canto 33 of the Inferno, in which Dante is surprised to meet the murderer Branca Doria in Hell, on the grounds that he thought he was still alive. Virgil explains that Branca Doria's sin (of treacherously murdering his father in law) was so severe that Hell could not wait to get its hands on him, and so sent a demon to inhabit his body, displacing his soul and flinging it into Cocytus. Just a thought.

[Mike]

THIRTY years ago Democrats (though weakened by political assassinations, an unopopular war and definitely in political decline) still amounted, politically, to something more than a junior partner of the Republican Party--Military industrialists, political "plumbers", Republicans generally, AND Dick Cheney HAD all to be more careful then.

THIRTEEN years ago Cheney wasn't (yet AND still) on the Halliburton corporate dole.

Does that help?

[dearieme]

"..Richard Cheney was [once] a determined opponent of America's getting sucked into the Iraqi quagmire... What has happened?" Important question: how about a serious answer?

[MTC]

With four by-pass surgeries, has Richard de Cheney not been technically dead four times now? Did we not have this same discussion a year ago and come to the conclusion that after going under the pump four times, the chances of his escaping serious brain damage were very, very small?

[d]

dearieme, Mike has answered your question in his post just prior to yours. If one wonders about the success of the Iraqi mission in terms of what is best for America instead of what is best for Halliburton then one has completely missed the point of the war. What better way to fleece the American taxpayer. It was an alignment of unholy forces that our commander-boy-and-chief wanted to be a big shot hero and show his dad by toppling Saddam while the sub-commander-and-thief saw an opportunity for record profits.

[Tim]

That would be more likely the PNACronomicon. A dead giveaway for a follower is an acute mind that unaccountably acts like an obtuse one, sort of like the architectural angles in sunken R'lyeh.

[Altoid]

Dogbert snuck in during his last open-heart surgery and replaced his brain with a cauliflower. No one noticed until it was all over.

[matt]

"...America is in trouble today not because her people have failed but because her leaders have failed."

Richard Nixon, Miami, 1968 as cited in Garry Wills' Nixon Agonistes.

In 40 years, we've come full circle.

[Big Al]

And now they are trying to break up NAFTA, by refusing to refund the softwood tax.

[David]

Cheney is Cthulhu, awakened.

[Joe Gandelman]

I was indee honored into the Order of the Shrill. I didn't even know about it until way after. But I have NOT rept NOT gotten any copy of the Krugmanomicon. What's going on here??