FRIEDMAN VS.

FRIEDMAN VS. FRIEDMAN. The boxing match of the year…no, month…no, day…well, whatever…is explained here.

More and more, I’m convinced that one of the major reasons the Bush Administration and its supporters continue to get away with so much is because almost no one remembers anything. Thus, many of them can maintain their insufferable sense of moral superiority endlessly — even when they contradict what they themselves have said in the past, and even when countless facts undermine their most basic… [The Light of Reason]

I’ve noticed this myself. All of the Crusaders seem to be generally either unable or unwilling to remember anything that happened in the past–even the recent past. The exceptions are when one of them makes a historical reference which refutes whatever he’s trying to say, as in the case of Bush’s recent comparison of Iraq to the Phillipine War.