A Stock of Laughing 0
Josh Marshall suggests that the Feds’ hands-off approach to the Bundy Bund is slowly revealing itself to have been prescient. A snippet:
In the last week alone, the militiamen have made headlines–not for forcing the government’s hand on federal lands or helping free the Hammonds–but for throwing boxes of dildos on the floor in protest against the mocking mail they have been receiving, for getting arrested after allegedly driving an official refuge vehicle into town to get groceries, for ransacking government files and for using government computers.
With each odd incident, the media and the public gets more insight into the individuals holed up at the wildlife preserve and their puzzling and incongruent motivations.
Bennett Cerf told the story of the small-college football team, woeful underdogs, who were managing to hold their own against Knute Rockne’s Notre Dame back in the “Four Horsemen” days. At half-time, their coach gave a rousing pep talk and the team, all fired up, charged out of the locker room right into the indoor swimming pool.
I don’t know why this item led me to remember that story . . .
