"Of the Strib's defense of Sen. Durbin I have nothing to say. Any editorial that describes Gitmo as a “hellhole” has no words left for any other actual holes o’hell, unless we’re going to layer hell like Dante, with different tiers for different states. I will note that more elderly people died of the Paris heat than appear to have perished from Gitmo conditions, but of course that doesn’t reflect on Paris, Parisiens, or the ability of the French to make air conditioners cheap and readily available..."
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"Anyway, Durbin has boo-hooed and clutched the uncomplaining corpse of Lincoln to his breast, and that’s that. I do wonder if staffers showed him how the remarks were played on Al-Jazeera, and informed him that those Christer nutjobs in the heartland – you know, that vast swath south of Chicago known as Most of Illinois – did not regard Al-Jazeera as a voice that held America’s best interests in heart, and Durbin was suddenly struck by the thought that DC and the WaPo edit page is not, perhaps, the entirety of the world after all."
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