{"id":2191,"date":"2008-02-28T18:18:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2008-02-28T18:18:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T23:18:14","slug":"three-cheers-for-queeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"Three Cheers for Queeg"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Barney Greenwald’s classic soliloquy<\/a> after the court martial in The Caine Mutiny<\/em>:<\/p>\n

See, while I was studying law ‘n old Keefer here was writing his play for the Theatre Guild, and Willie here was on the playing fields of Prinshton, all that time these birds we call regulars–these stuffy, stupid Prussians, in the Navy and the Army -were manning guns. Course they weren’t doing it to save my mom from Hitler, they’re doing it for dough, like everybody else does what they do. Question is, in the last analysis–last analysis–what do you do for dough? Old Yellowstain, for dough, was standing guard on this fat dumb and happy country of ours. Meantime me, I was advancing little free non-Prussian life for dough. Of course, we figured in those days, only fools go into armed service. Bad pay, no millionaire future, and You can’t call your mind or body your own. Not for sensitive intellectuals. So when all hell broke loose and the Germans started running out of soap and figured, well it’s time to come over and melt down old Mrs. Greenwald–who’s gonna stop them? Not her boy Barney. Can’t stop a Nazi with a lawbook. So I dropped the lawbooks and ran to learn how to fly. Stout fellow. Meantime, and it took a year and a half before I was any good, who was keeping Mama out of the soap dish? Captain Queeg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought about that when I read this.\u00a0 Medea “Code Pink” Benjamin before<\/a>, defending Berkeley’s assault on the Marines:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it weren\u2019t for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we\u2019d be living under Hitler.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Medea Benjamin yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we were at the protest in Berkeley from 12 to 4 PM a white volvo drove by and a man spat upon code pink. They chased him down the street and got into a verbal altercation. The police were NO WHERE in sight. That\u2019s not the best part, ready for this? Medea Benjamin yelled and I quote \u201cMarines!\u201d she actually yelled for our help because this man had stepped out of his car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps a mistake?\u00a0 Something lost in translation from human to Code-Pink-ese?<\/p>\n

I even asked her if she was yelling Police and she told me \u201cI said Marines\u201d then put her arm around my friend Allen (the Marine vet) Ironic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paging Alanis Morissette.\u00a0 And Jose Ferrer.
\n(Via Malkin<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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