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Well, as some guy once said,

Elusive Trope — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:43:59 +0000

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Well, as some guy once said, "the play is the thing." What one catches may not be the conscience of the mob, but all the fluttering unformed fears and hatreds just beneath the surface. Be careful, be very careful.

Thanks very much, Anna.Who

Doctor Cleveland — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:00:12 +0000

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Thanks very much, Anna.

Who gets killed in Tamburlaine's place? I don't think it's a simple substitution. I think as you heat up the rage, it whips around randomly, so that the victims are unpredictable. And I don't think it stops at one victim or set of victims.

i'm late to the party here

anna am — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:49:47 +0000

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i'm late to the party here but even if it's way too late, i just have to say this is a great post. love your synopsis of tamburlaine.

but even more I love the way you segue it into the heart of the piece. what was then is now. jacked up mobs are the same eternally.

i do wonder who you think will be killed in tamburlaine's place though. boys in uniform in afghanistan?

Take the word "what" out of

Doctor Cleveland — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:34:01 +0000

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Take the word "what" out of the original sentence and you have a real question.

Burning question

DF — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:39:00 +0000

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Burning question answered!

And, incidentally, he appears to on board with the one-two-shuffle that's going on here to get liberal people whipped up into a frenzy that resembles, "Yes, I know there's a First Amendment, but...," so that they can then turn around draw false equivalence between Jones' Krazy Karnival of Kombustible Korans and Park51.

I still poopoo the affair.But

Michael Maiello — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:36:37 +0000

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I still poopoo the affair.

But I do like medieval theatre.

What can I say? I'm an aesthete and nice guy. Who hits people with his shiny championship belt.

But what does Alan Keyes

Rootman — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:16:39 +0000

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But what does Alan Keyes think?

You've got to be kidding.

Obey — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:08:00 +0000

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You've got to be kidding. Slap Flair on the back of the head with some medieval pulp theater, and he taps out? C'mon man! Yesterday you were poopooing this whole affair.

My question is, who is Tamburlaine in this scenario? Preacher McAsshat? Yeah, he'll probably need police protection after this. Big deal. Is he going to inspire a wave of 'burn the furriners' vigilantes? I don't think so. He's a sideshow. Just look at the guy.

The more serious problem is the Republicans trying to get the mob incensed, by any means necessary, under the assumption that they'll be able to ride that tiger. And there's a good chance that they're right.

Of course, to quinn the

acanuck — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:44:27 +0000

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Of course, to quinn the eskimo, all of us are stinking foreigners.

And that should be a lesson

GFS — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:03:58 +0000

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And that should be a lesson to us all.

Kind of like the transition Hitler made, regarding who he blamed for all the bad things like unemployment and angry youth, being a pariah country in Europe, and loss of cultural respect, when Germany's economy was tanked after WWI, and the people needed someone to blame. The corporations siren whispered advice to the ambitious man was to switch targets, (to get the light to stop shining on them), find another group to blame, and by that adjustment gain their money and support to win the brass ring. Perhaps someone who recalls more details of this historical curiousity can expound more.