tuco blogs Like a circular firing squad, outstanding members of our Lumpencommentariat take aim at their opposites.
Anders Behring Breivik, conservative Norwegian activist currently credited with a body count steadily approaching three digits, has delivered
a priceless boost for equal-opportunity bigotry, by inspiring a flurry of fallacious finger-pointing towards Muslim fundamentalists throughout the ranks of Western media. In recognition of his fair and balanced mayhem, liberal Jews at
Tikkun Olam are gleefully reporting the allegations of Norwegian bloggers, crediting Beivik with having guest blogged for
Atlas Shrugs,
Jihad Watch and
Gates of Vienna, and outing him as the author of
a blog called
Fjordman, long concerned with their goal of
Defeating Eurabia. Meanwhile, their antagonists have published an alleged
statement by Fjordman disclaiming “the utterly false rumor that [he is] the evil shooter from Utøya, the island just outside of Oslo”.
At the end of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, a tale of three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in buried Confederate gold, the last eponymous antagonist, more formally known as Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez, finds himself consigned to an apex of an equilateral triangle inscribed in the circular center of a Civil War cemetery, facing a Mexican standoff with his Good and Bad counterparts, Blondie and Angel Eyes. As The Good prevails over The Bad, The Ugly attempts to contribute to his triumph, but discovers that Blondie had unloaded his gun the night before. Tuco’s homicidal frustration enables Blondie to delegate the dirty work: “You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend—those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig!”
Alas, hot air blown back and forth falls short of flying lead. You dig?