‘It is so easy to condemn,' said [Mr Arabin], continuing the thread of his thoughts. 'I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for newspapers, or a leading member of the opposition--to thunder forth accusations against men in power; show up the worst side of every thing that is produced; to pick holes in every coat; to be indignant, sarcastic, jocose, moral, or supercilious; to damn with faint praise, or crush with open calumny! What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing?..---From Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics)
by Anthony Trollope.

Send that quote over to Jane Hamsher, willya? She's gone stark raving mad. Rahm Emanuel has done something she doesn't like, and she's decided that she's going to have him fired.
What's that word again? Oh yeah. Hubris.
Posted by: Linkmeister | Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 01:50 AM