[Peace-discuss] Long rage...

[C. G. Estabrook]

  Alex Cockburn strikes a similar note:

"Which brings me briefly to Ed Miliband, now chosen to be the leader of the 
British Labor Party. The last time I saw Eddie he was an intern at the Nation in 
the late 1980s or early 1990s. Round the corner from the Nation when it was on 
Fifth and 13th st in Manhattan was Zinno’s restaurant and amid a pleasant lunch 
with JoAnn Wypijewski, my own intern Richie McKerrow and Eddie, I asked the 
future leader what I asked all interns as a matter of form, 'Eddie, is your hate 
pure?'

"The man who first asked me that question was the late Jim Goode, editor of 
Penthouse.  Like Playboy, Penthouse would pay good money for long articles about 
the corruption of America, thus giving the pointyheads an excuse to thumb 
through the pinups, and the editors some elevated rationale to their domestic 
partners for their place of employment. Goode, tall and cadaverous,  was gay, 
clad in black leather as he crouched on the floor of his office, gazing morosely 
at hundreds of  photos of bare-breasted women. As I entered with some screed 
about corporate and political evil, he snarled, 'Alex, is your hate pure?'

“'Yes, Jim, my hate is pure.'

"It was a good way of assaying interns. The feisty ones would respond excitedly, 
'Yes, my hate is pure.'  I put the question to Eddie Miliband. He gaped at me in 
shock like Gussie Fink-Nottle* watching one of his newts vanish down the plug 
hole in his bath. 'I…I… don’t hate anyone, Alex,' he stammered. It’s all you 
need to know. English capitalism will be safe in his hands, assuming he ever 
grasps the levers of what passes for power in 10 Downing Street. It is very hard 
to imagine him as prime minister. He’s forever Fink-Nottle to me."

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*P. G. Wodehouse character


On 10/3/10 3:50 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> I heard once a black poet's comment that his greatest
> limitation was an inability to sustain rage.
>
> And right here we see the antidote, with its very own Federal funding:
>
>      Long Rage Missiles.
>
>> The Obama administration continues to fund development of ARROW-3,
>> Israel’s advanced long-rage, high-altitude system for countering Iranian
>> ballistic missiles...
>