Friday, October 16, 2009

Crusadin’   [Jay Nordlinger]

Just a quick word on reader reaction — reaction specifically to Impromptus today. I have a variety of items in there, as usual, and one of them is on Rush Limbaugh: There is disbelief, indignation, and hurt over what has been done to him most recently. I “feel” that “pain,” as an inglorious president once said, believe me. It occurs to me that Rush is sort of like Israel: You can say anything about him, and get away with it. No matter how egregious or outrageous the lie, there will be countless heads nodding, and repeating. But isn’t it nice to know that a lie can’t prevail forever? That truth will have its way, come what may?

 

Is that too sunny for you? Well, as the hippies once sang, let the sun shine in.

 

Also, in Impromptus, I have a little note on the team name of Holy Cross — of the College of the Holy Cross. It comes up in a little item mainly about Brown University (and Columbus Day). I express the opinion that Holy Cross’s team name is the most un-PC such name in America: the Crusaders. Readers are sending me arguments for other names, but I don’t think so: In this day and age, Crusaders? It makes “Braves” and the rest nearly milquetoast.

10/16 10:10 AMShare