Andrew Klavan hits the nail on the head.

Sometimes someone takes the words right out your mouth and then knows how to organize them in a brilliant essay. Andrew Klavan has done just that (even though he had know idea).  From my new favorite read... 

 http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_diarist.html

Excerpts:

"It’s manners, not morals, that lay the borderlines of our behavior."

"Still, mannerly as we would rather be, truth-telling continues to be both compelling and ultimately satisfying. There is, after all, something greater than courtesy. “Firmness in the right,” Lincoln called it, “as God gives us to see the right.” We find ourselves at a precarious moment in an endeavor of great importance: namely, the preservation of Western rationalism and liberty. It does mankind no good to allow so magnificent an enterprise to slip away merely for fear of saying the wrong thing."

Published Monday, May 07, 2007 3:56 PM by chefinfidel

Comments

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Monday, May 07, 2007 4:27 PM by Desechado

Good post. Two in one day that I really liked. Keep agitating Melkor. He deserves it. Maybe he should read this and learn a little about bending the truth as he does to make a point out of nothing. Take a look at his comparison of Splitt & Connor to Republicans and Dems in the post about Rocky and Hannity.

# re: Andrew Klavan hits the nail on the head.

Monday, May 07, 2007 4:35 PM by Melchor

Ha Ha Ha. Take a look at Bush, and I mean both of them. the reasoning behind the war in Iraq is a lie and ... "read my lips. no new taxes."

# re: Andrew Klavan hits the nail on the head.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:30 AM by Splittfinger

This is right on, like i just said in my answer to Melchor in the Hannity and Rocky post, it's time for us to honest with ourselves, and stop going down the path we are on.

"It does mankind no good to allow so magnificent an enterprise to slip away merely for fear of saying the wrong thing"