Ross, I know that while reading Billmon's words in the wee hours this morning I had two feelings... the first was "ah finally he sees", and the second was "about damn time you talk about it"...
Nice piece here, my friend.
HST: "The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are ones who have gone over. The others--the living-- are those who who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later."
I know that Edge, and of course you'd can't describe it to those who don't know it.
The stones speak and I'm so often silent... blah, blah, blah, but not because I have nothing to say.
thanks Jerome.
Kate, I do not know 'The Edge', but I've read about it...... thanks.
Nice work Ross. There are several huge HST fans where I work. One recently got the "Gonzo symbol" tattooed on his arm with HST 1937-2005 above it. I prefer to write about him.
I know the Edge also Kate, but I think we figured that out about each other a while ago....
NJim--
Is this not irony in the extreme?
Rabid Thompsonites working for an insurance company.....
Ross,
This is not ironic. Irony is dead.
Bolton-UN, Wolfie(and girlfriend-see TBogg)-World Bank, Gonzalez-Atty Gen,Condi-Condi....Cazart!! as someone used to say.
NJ--
Indeed.
Beautiful post RossK. Thank you.
Yep, Jim. Maybe we should think about a forming a club. 
thank-you Voodoo.
Usually these things are a labour of something or other.
This one just came pouring out.
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Kate--
Of course.
And of course it would be one of those Groucho clubs that, if it wanted you, you would run the other way as fast as you could.
And somewhere in the shadows of my imagination, a tall bald man wearing aviator sunglasses watches closely, sipping a drink from one hand while a black leather satchel dangles from the other.
And slowly, very slowly, another tall man wearing a grey suit and fedora, also holding a black bag, nods deliberately and cuts the air, slowly, with his cane.
jonku!
Images within images are, what......
....memory?
You know, this entire blogosphere thing may be cut just a little too closely to a finely realized William Gibson novel in a future not quite realized.
This site was just involved in one of those viral memes. Small in scale to be sure, but stranger than fiction nonetheless.
More to come.
Great, great post, Ross. Thanks for the heads-up.
Billmon is susceptible to the same lurking optimism that causes most of us blog, despite the dark clouds and spewing flames over the Evil Mountain. In chronicling the sheer weight of corruption out there, one gets the sense that it may just fall apart in time to save the species. It's a tight race, which provides enough tension to make it worth staying awake for the duration.
Being susceptible to optimism....
That's what I want.
Thanks Michael.
strip poker naked strip poker naked strip poker naked // getting a mortgage after bankruptcy getting a mortgage after bankruptcy getting a mortgage after bankruptcy
May your greedheaded handlers burn in a bubbling broth of heckfire Tamara.....
For all those folks flocking over here to the Gazetteer from George Giles' Ron Paul piece, we've got a whole lot more HST low on the sideboard under, funnily enough, "Res Ipsa....No More".
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Way late, but still in time for the election of 2008.....
Billmon is back at it, this time where it all began.
For him at least.
Could it be that, like Thompson with Wenner, Billmon just can't quit Markos?
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