From the "too cool to make an argument" files
Shorter Ariel Dorfman: Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
Today is
"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." -Bill Cosby
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Those Modern Language people are obviously all Bush haters who believe everything MoveOn tells them.
Dorfman writes:
The sadder truth is that I can imagine an epilogue to my story.
The United States is hit by an even more devastating and lethal terrorist attack.
On that day, can I confidently say that there will not be a knock at my door and that two men, one tall and gangly, the other short and beefy, will not ask me if I recall spreading lies about their efforts to fight the war on terrorism? And that they will not demand that I accompany them, just for a few hours, for some routine questioning?
I can confidently say it: If and when there is another massive attack by Islamic terrorists, Argentinian-born academics and novelists won't exactly be the government's highest priority. Talk about ego...
It's really kind of mind-boggling, isn't it?
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