Thus Spake Russ

Posted By Russ Emerson on May 20, 2004 at 6:01 pm

James Taranto at OpinionJournal.com has a little comment on John Kerry’s “Let America Be America Again” theme in today’s Best of the Web. [Click the link and scroll down to “LAABA Lamp.” And if anyone at OpinionJournal reads this: Hey! You guys need linkable HTML anchors on your page!]
Taranto sums it up nicely, but not as nicely as Ith at Absinthe & Cookies did, in our Quote of the Day:

So what’s America now? … Heck, for all I know, America has actually been a guy named Lewis who lives on the Maine coast collecting driftwood.

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Posted By Russ Emerson on May 19, 2004 at 12:16 am

To KILL!!!

Outnumbered British soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Army’s first bayonet charge since the Falklands War 22 years ago.
The fearless Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders stormed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down.
Despite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara.

(Via Misha.)

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