Encore Presentation
That's right, in honor of the confirmation hearing today for John Bolton, Cartel of Defiance is proud to present its first encore presentation! To see our orignal splutterings and quotations when the news first broke just click
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Like other timeless debates which can give hours of amusement -- who's your favorite Marx Brother?, who was the best player on the 1976 Cincinnati Reds? -- Bush has given us a new category almost too easy to argue about with conviction, yet impossible to decide with any certainty. Who's the worst official to be promoted in the second term after gross misconduct in the first? With top candidates, strictly in alphabetical order: John Bolton, Alberto Gonzales, John Negroponte, Condoleeza Rice and last, but not not least, Paul Wolfowitz.
Could you stick to one answer without any doubt?
posted by awol | 6:31 PM
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And for a technical term to describe such use of the State Department we might think of shell game or thimblerig:
"Who has not heard of the game of Thimbles? For the edification of those who have been so fortunate as never to have seen it, we will briefly describe it.
The sporting gentleman produces three common sewing thimbles and a small ball, and placing them on his knee or some smooth surface, commences operations by rolling the little ball by his third finger under each of the thimbles, which are in a row, lifting first one and then another, as the ball approaches it, with his thumb and forefinger, and playing it along from one to the other. When all is ripe he suffers the ball to stop, half disclosing, half concealing its resting place. Hands are then lifted, and the easy dupes make their bets as to the identical thimble under which the ball may be found. The strength of the game lies in the legerdemain by which the gamester removes the ball and places it under any thimble he may choose, after the bet is made."
--The Reformed Gambler, Jonathan H. Green, c. 1858
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