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• You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!

  James Lileks

  Feet, Stronger, Tanks

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• And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

  James Lileks

  Country, Years, Bangs

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• If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

  James Lileks

  Mother, Ivory, Juniors

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• From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

  James Lileks

  Gum, Politics, Hull

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• The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

  James Lileks

  Forever, Mind, Contradiction

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• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

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• If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

  James Lileks

  Thinking, Attention, 80s

  James Lileks (2004). “Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible 70's”, Crown Pub

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• A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

  James Lileks

  Children, Museums, Training

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• The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.

  James Lileks

  America, People, Dictator

  "Daily Bleat" with James Lileks, www.lileks.com. September 18, 2003.

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• Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

  James Lileks

  Cells, Politics, Best Place

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• So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment requiring the sun to rise in the east; it would fall under the category of obvious truths that the Constitution need not address.

  James Lileks

  Fall, Guy, East

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• The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, power-mad, extremist puppy-strangler clawed his way out of hell and landed in your district. And the voice is happy and relieved when talking about The Most Noble Candidate, as though he's Santa, Will Rogers and Lincoln all rolled into one.

  James Lileks

  Talking, Voice, Mad

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• When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state, people can't help but notice that these buskers and mummers seem unmoved by the horrors of actual prison states. (Saddam commissioned a copy of the Quran written in his own blood - but John Ashcroft is the real religious nut, don't you know.)

  James Lileks

  Religious, Real, Blood

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• The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.

  James Lileks

  Lying, Copying, Machines

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• Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

  James Lileks

  Heart, People, Free Will

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