The above should have read:
“Who the fuck cares? I’ll dig the fuckin’ hole, I don’t give a fuck! What is it, the first hole I dug? First time I dug a hole, I’ll dig a fuckin’ hole. Well, where are the shovels?”
Extra bonus points for the first person to guess what the above quote comes from…
(contestant hint/clue)
Maybe even better, and somewhat along the same lines :
Plato’s Republic meets Reservoir Dogs
Nathaniel Daw has mashed up Plato’s Republic with Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (specifically the tied-to-a-chair-being-tortured scene). The outcome is so funny I got the hiccoughs:
[Thrasymachus is tied up in a chair. Socrates is brandishing a gun in his face]
Thrasymachus: Don’t kill me, man!
Socrates: Are you finished, fucker?
Thrasymachus: Look, look, man, you can have my ten yoke of oxen. My virgin daughters? My pomegranite orchard?
Socrates: You like pomegranites? Shit, motherfucker, I hear they’ve got a fuckin’ all-you-can-eat special going on on pomegranites where you’re headed.
Thrasymachus: Don’t do it, Socrates. Be fair.
Socrates: [Suddenly contemplative] Fair?
Thrasymachus: [Sees an opportunity for survival] Yeah, fair… think about my wife and children —
Socrates: Would you say that to be fair is the same thing as to be just?
Thrasymachus: What?
Socrates: Well, I’m just a dull, wandering street philosopher, so I don’t understand quite where you’re headed with this particular line of reasoning. Perhaps [motions with gun] you could further elucidate your theory of justice.
Republic Dogs

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 1 2005 9:30 utc | 4

Bing bing bing! We have a winner!
christofay! you win one weekend w/ Joe Pesci at your choice of spots on the banks of the Mississippi ‘New’ New Orleans!

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 1 2005 10:24 utc | 6

Libby’s trial on these five charges is irrelevant to the Plame investigation. Might as well be a separate universe.
Fitzgerald doesn’t give a damn about the trial part — that’s what Libby gets to deal with for lying so much, so long.
Fitzgerald has even bigger charges waiting if Libby doesn’t cooperate real quick here.
He charged Libby with five counts that are solid gold — no way any kind of defense will get him off. These stick.
He did this to let Libby know he’s very serious, and to give him one brief chance to stop obstructing and to confess all — before Fitzgerald nails him on the Espionage and Outing an Agent charges.
If Libby wants to fall on swords, Fitz will give him even bigger swords to fall on, and simply move on to the next one on his list. He was always prepared to step around Libby, or anyone else. Bush could pardon any one of them at any time, Fitz knows. So he did not pin his cases on one person.
Libby’s only value to Fitzgerald is if he will turn on his handlers — soon — and talk about motive and intent, so that Fitzgerald can make solid cases for conspiracy and take the whole lying crew down.
Libby’s trial is nothing for Fitzgerald to wait on.
If Libby doesn’t cooperate by Thanksgiving, he gets the bigger charges, and he and his trial can go on for years in the background. Fitz will just move on to his next mark.

Posted by: Antifa | Nov 1 2005 16:25 utc | 8

antifa
as i’ve sd here & at fdl – i think that is the most optimisitic interpretation that has more to do with our wished than any jurisprudential reality
libby is all we’ll be getting

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 2 2005 22:22 utc | 10