Sherry Chandler

Roofing

“Jus’ like a turtle, hiding ‘neath his horny shell….”

While I was renewing the roof covering of our modest hovel it struck me that we need all manner of hard carapaces to protect our lives from divers things. Even the Israelis and Lebanese and Palestinians are back to hurling the slings & errors of importunate outrage at each other–they just had to join the Shiites and Sunnis and Kurds no doubt– and all Porgy Duhhb seems able to do is to utter a lowlevel vulgarism to his partner-in-crime at the G8; with his mouth full of buttered bun. No doubt he thought his buttocks were well covered by not having any live mikes nearby.

I took along Wee Wully the Shake’s Troilus & Cressida to while away some time this AM. It has even more references to Chaucer’s Hous of Fame than I recalled it having. Essentially an extended argument over how to set values on our heroes/leaders’ reputations after they have made a gross error in judgment which results in another disastrous and intractable war. As Reginald Hill observed in one of his wonderful Dalziel & Pascoe novels [The Wood Beyond]:

“Nineteen eighty-two was a key year for the Tory Party….

At its start, Margaret Thatcher’s grasp of the premiership seemed rather less secure than Richard Nixon’s of the principles of democracy….

Then came the Falklands War. Never (or at least not since Troy) in the field of human daftness had so many gone so far to sacrifice so much for the sake of one silly woman.”

Now we have the bigger folly of two–and many more than two–silly men, and that folly has undoubtably sparked one of those periodic Middle East Meltdowns. Josh Marshal sez it is very like ‘82 Deja Vu all over again in a 15 July post.

Saw a foam beer collar yesterday which said something like “Not fluent in Moron: please speak slowly and enunciate clearly.”

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