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November 13, 2003

Tag Me, Bag Me • Etiquetté C'est Pesé

Fired from France by the dissident frogman

Hey, don't look at me like that. I'm just pushing further David's question on Samizdata because I'm too weak to resist Tim Haas' call (see the comments).

So there it goes: it's a wallpaper, and it's at my Propaganda Bureau.

And as the Samizdatistas would say: remember, the State is not your friend.		 Ne me regardez pas comme ça. Je ne fait que pousser plus loin la question de David sur Samizdata car je suis trop faible pour résister à l'incitation de Tim Haas (voyez les commentaires).

Alors voilà : c'est un fond d'écran, et c'est au Bureau de la Propagande.

Et comme les Samizdatistas vous le diraient : souvenez-vous, l'Etat n'est pas votre ami.

Comments

It's brutally beautiful, and the Cyrillic letterforms as devastating as they are subtle. A thousand thanks -- and let me know if there's anything uniquely American I can send over to repay your efforts.

Posted by: Tim Haas | November 14, 2003 03:29 PM

Tim:

Well, thanks. You've just repaid my efforts.

Posted by: the dissident frogman | November 14, 2003 03:51 PM

Grand. But if you ever want a MoonPie to go with that Hawaiian Hazelnut coffee, you know whom to call ...

Posted by: Tim Haas | November 14, 2003 05:42 PM

".....anything uniquely American I can send over to repay your efforts."

How about a few greenbacks? Perhaps an American Airlines one-way ticket Paris to DFW, JFK, EWR, LAX etc? That's nice, too.

Posted by: DJS | November 15, 2003 12:46 AM

That is so weird. When I see people clammering to escape from their country it never fails to shock me. No complaints here on this end. Even the gripers wouldn't leave.

Posted by: Papertiger the Californian | November 15, 2003 09:19 AM

Actually, there are a few movers and gripers - Fred Reed, for one. He shuffled off to Mexico, sick to death of the bureaucratic kudzu spreading itself over everyday affairs in the US. I must admit it, I admire that he actually had the cojones to do it, and not just stay safe and comfy and criticize from some well-paid sinecure in media. (Maureen Dowd, I'm lookin' at you here, and believe me, not because I enjoy the view.) But you're right, Papertiger - most of us prefer to stay around with our machetes and go down swinging.

Posted by: Nightfly | November 19, 2003 09:52 PM