The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Sunday, January 30, 2005  

LIFE IS TOO SHORT
Far Too Short For Buckley Wannabes

Life is too short, way too short, to waste one's time with science fiction.

Proof in point? Someone going by the name of Shannen Coffin, just one of the many losers living these days off the dimes of the near-dead William F. Buckley, recently showed his scary privates to the world thusly:

[T]he essay I wrote in freshman year at a Catholic college analyzing Darth Vader in terms of Soren [sic] Kierkegaard's ["]Sickness Unto Death["] (all that self becoming the self stuff [sic])[.]

Believe it or not, that sorry discharge was followed by a reference to Bill Murray, who was once mildly funny and vaguely interesting, but a really, really long time ago.

[Post-publication addendum (February 1): Speaking of losers, and we were, it's fitting that John Podhoretz -- New York Post columnist, Mets fan, VRWC gravy-train feeder extraorinaire, and known drag-name user ("Tiffany Midgeson") -- haplessly was trying to do the same on Sunday in "Vindicated." Go ahead; have a laugh. (Link via TBogg.)]

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