historiblogography

ground control to major tom

A certain chronic hyperventilator links to a piece of English journalism that will go down in history as one of the most (pant pant pant) breathless (pant pant pant) bits of nonsense (pant pant pant) ever written (pant pant pant) about a lame-ass election:

GLADIATORS OF AMERICA PREPARE FOR THEIR FATE

The high priests of polling ordained that George Bush and John Kerry should both hold final rallies next to each other under the cliffs of downtown Milwaukee yesterday – Hector and Achilles finally meeting beneath the walls of Troy...

Polling! Milwaukee! Stirring!

I know that I can't look at Bush and Kerry without thinking of The Iliad, for sure. Can Walter Mondale play Priam?

posted by Chris Bray @ 5:40 PM