my buddy conrad

i remember a communications professor who always told us that when engaging in a debate it is better to take the side that you don't support. it will force you to think and best of all you will be prepared for most of the arguments your opponent produces. this might be the reason i like to read right wing publications and every once in a while a pleasant accident will occur.

for years i detested CONRAD BLACK. he is a wealthy, arrogant snob and recently spent time in jail for his past misdeeds but he is also recognized as one of few remaining real newspaper men. what started out as a lark, reading his weekly column, has now become something i truly enjoy. for all his faults, he has a way with words.

reading his latest column i came across a word that i hadn't heard in years, "enfeeblement." i just love that word, almost as much as recidivist. here is the paragraph in which he used it. (i also love his last sentence)

I cannot accept that the West has reached the point of enfeeblement that we sit like worried, helpless sheep while Iran arms itself with nuclear weapons, and are afraid to assist a clear majority in Libya get rid of a murderous fruitcake of a despot. At the time of Munich, Winston Churchill called for the return of "martial courage of olden time." Here, we could settle for the purposefulness of the unprepossessing George W. in the Iraq Surge or of Obama escalating in Afghanistan. If NATO (the U.S. Sixth Fleet in practice) can't take out Libyan air defenses at no or minimal cost, we should all start studying Arabic and spending an hour a day with our foreheads pressed to the floor.

here's the whole column if you're interested, How Canada can help save Libya



i love you sons of bitches.