BootHeartsObama!

I see no reason not to extend my vile mood into April:

It's tough to reconcile that caricature with the fact that the highest praise for Obama's Afghanistan announcement is being voiced by the likes of William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Max Boot - all prominent neoconservatives. Kagan, for instance, lauded what he called Obama's "gutsy and correct decision." Boot believes that Obama's Friday address "was pretty much all that supporters of the war effort could have asked for, and probably pretty similar to what a President McCain would have decided on." On the substance of policy, Boot says, "Obama is solid."

Max Boot thinks Obama solid. Bootfart?

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• Elric's in Okinawa.
• Pussiness squared.
• Happiest days of their lives. And on the stupid-ass Howard Beale allusions.
• Happiest days of their lives.
• Who's an unsexy boy.
• Jo-Lo talks.
• Militant Religion and Modern Atrocity.
• Torture Boys.
• Dead Ants! Dead Ants!
• An incredibly cursory survey/evaluation of nationalism.
• Fewer PhDs.
• Cyclical or secular.
• More on Jack Spicer (h/t)
• Silliman's bleg should be bookmarked for the daily links alone, no matter how much linking to other blegs is shameless blegwhoring.

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Ed reviews The Kindly Ones. Here's the blegpost. Here's the print. Here's the video.

Heh. I'm 100 pages in and.... if the point is.... can I just reread Gass' The Tunnel and Grossman's Life and Fate instead, please?

I get the point. I'll give it another 100 pages, but if it's 100 more pages of the same point - which is probably the book's point, the relentlessness of the book's point the book's point.... Which means if I get the point but hate the read I'm both complicit and guilty (FWRRT! if I like the read I'm complicit and guilty), if I refuse to read a fat catalog of the atrocious consequences of my complicity, I'm a coward too and still guilty. wOOt!

I like it better than Ed, but it's a trial. I don't feel like being prosecutor and defendant and judge and jury right now, which of course is the book's point.

And here, another no.

UPDATE:

Now that I'm obligated to finish TKO - and I am obligated to finish it - what does admiring a novel meant to discomfort say about hierarchy? It's no accident the novel is obsessed with rank and bureaucracy. Nw tht I'm blgtd t fnsh th nvl cn I nt s vwls xcpt th prnn "I"?

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My head, my mood, your head, your mood

Lordy, know what I need?

A New Order song in my head, that's what I need.