hunter as ahab

Hunter has had a bad day:

"And all of it, all of the insults both large and small, point to a time when there is simply no rational basis for argument, or fundamental rock of even the smallest agreement, or one leader among hundreds who can possibly take the wheel, because there is no "wheel" -- of objective fact, of unquestionable source, of deeply held principle -- to take. We are a divided country, and we are divided for very good reasons, and we will, apparently, remain divided, and there is no website, or newspaper, or leader, or partisan hack, or luminous expert, or sodden git, or secret plan, or political operation, or Truth of God that will mend the breach.

We simply do not believe the same truths anymore. And I, for one, have no patience left. With every injury, passing or substantial, deserved or unexpected, on the Bush administration -- which is, to hear tell of it, our everlasting bane, and their savior -- the Algernons revert more and more into descending, primal states. And I, in truth, among them.

I have no patience for this nonsense. I do not wish to know any person not exasperated by these times, or any man that will defend them. I do not wish to discuss morality with fans of addicts, or legality with clans led by criminals, or intellectual conundrums with wandering herds of thundering morons."

you should go read the rest.

sadly, he has taken leave of us. i hope he follows arthur's path...