Not with a bang but a whimper. Why Dan, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for an issue, finally, of no import or consequence?

So this is what it's come to - the last remnants of honor sold, a pathetic raddled diviner's shoveling and shuffling, pooh-bahs shilling Orwellian exculpations, a producer having spent five years of brief precious life assiduously seeking a flint for scandal and damnation, with nothing to show for it but a few photocopies, sad, sorry, and dubious, and ex post facto hustling of "experts" and reminiscing walk-ons.

Can we turn away with a decent sense of shame now? Turn away and let them sink toward whatever demographic niche they can profitably broadcast to? Let the dead bury the dead. Can we now turn our attention, while youth and strength remain, to things that are not petty and inconsequential?

Posted by Moira Breen at September 15, 2004 07:38 PM