Comments on: And/Or http://larison.org/2007/04/25/andor/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:19:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: jsinger008 http://larison.org/2007/04/25/andor/#comment-6335 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:59:02 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/04/25/andor/#comment-6335 Congratulations on winning the "thinking blogger" award (from two bloggers no less). I want to nominate you for the "blogger with the best prose" award. To wit, these two sentences alone should have serious editors crawling over one another to hire you: "You could use any foreign crisis, real or imagined, in place of the Naxalites, and you would get the same unreasonable alarmism. It is as if pop chaos theory met Cold War paranoia and had a brief tryst in the supply closet at an establishment foreign policy think tank, resulting in the birth of modern interventionism." Brilliant! Congratulations on winning the “thinking blogger” award (from two bloggers no less). I want to nominate you for the “blogger with the best prose” award. To wit, these two sentences alone should have serious editors crawling over one another to hire you:

“You could use any foreign crisis, real or imagined, in place of the Naxalites, and you would get the same unreasonable alarmism. It is as if pop chaos theory met Cold War paranoia and had a brief tryst in the supply closet at an establishment foreign policy think tank, resulting in the birth of modern interventionism.”

Brilliant!

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