Everything Old is Born Again

Vancouver, British Columbia
49°15' North; 123°08' West

This, from Charles Demers at Rabble, by way of Seven Oaks, is very, very good indeed. Here's a slice....

"....everything this year (2004) was “born again”: the Bush administration, Spiderman, Bridget Jones, the French empire in Haiti, Quebec nationalism, Hugo Chavez and Paul Martin. It was the year of Second Comings! Colin Powell was somehow born again as a tragic figure. John Kerry, alternating rapidly between hawk and dove, was born again and again and again. Iraq was born again as the home of collaborators appointed to rule the country on behalf of Anglo-Saxons. Halliburton was born again as a U.S. federal government program. And after his bland and inchoate Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore was born again as a controversial populist rebel with the brilliant Fahrenheit 9/11......"

Go read it all, it's really worth it.