We the Blog Update: Huh? Or Criticality is Dead, Long Live Criticality

We the Blog Update: Huh? Or Criticality is Dead, Long Live Criticality

April 2, 2003

Robert Atkins
Chief Critical Inspector
US Department of Art & Technology

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http://wetheblog.org/archive/000024.html

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"I'd be happy to take credit [for the current war plan] but it's not
mine." - Donald Rumsfeld

As Chief Critical Inspector of the Department of Art and Technology,
it is time for me to intervene. Rummy made me do it-or at least his
craven retreat today from his own Department's ownership of the war
operation did. (Could this have been an April Fool's Dayprank?) The
buck never seems to end on Rummy's desk; his latest howler-of-a-turf
grab was to announce the other day that the Pentagon, rather than the
State Department, ought to be disbursing aid in Iraq. Ensuring, of
course, no possibility of cooperation from expert NGOs and
international aid organizations. But, hey, if the Defense Department
can't manage the war, it should be able to not manage the vitally
important aid operation.

Now one never expects competence from the folks in Shrubville, but
these guys can't take any criticism either. (Much less a joke.) Yes,
there is such a thing as constructive criticism; ask any art student.
(Where's Lynne Cheney when we need an official perspective on
poststructuralism, anyway?) Clearly the humorless bozos and bozettes
that "people" this administration believe that winning is everything.
If its economic, environmental, diplomatic, and military record
constitute winning, you can beam me up Condy. And come to think of
it, what I'm calling criticism is really just learning, Mr. Education
President. Or, put another way, you can lead a horse('s ass) to
waterS.

Robert Atkins
Chief Critical Inspector
US Department of Art & Technology