P.J. O'Rourke delivers a nuanced appeal for intercultural respect, drawing on his mellow days as a foreign correspondent to speculate on future coverage of an independent Scotland. The comments thread is a little excitable.
And as a guarantee of a Third World economy in shambles, Scotland is oil-rich. Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale.
I know one oilstate that really got it right...if they get tired of the dictator P.J.'s predicting, maybe Sarah Palin would consider the job.
The comments thread seems divided between people who took O'Rourke seriously when they shouldn't have, people who are playing the same game as O'Rourke, and people who are taking those people seriously.
I thought it was funny, on the order of the kind of playful feuding we see between the US Army and the US Marines, or either and the Navy, or the Rangers and the SEALs.
And as a guarantee of a Third World economy in shambles, Scotland is oil-rich. Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale.
ReplyDeleteI know one oilstate that really got it right...if they get tired of the dictator P.J.'s predicting, maybe Sarah Palin would consider the job.
The comments thread seems divided between people who took O'Rourke seriously when they shouldn't have, people who are playing the same game as O'Rourke, and people who are taking those people seriously.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was funny, on the order of the kind of playful feuding we see between the US Army and the US Marines, or either and the Navy, or the Rangers and the SEALs.