path to 9/11 humor

I ran into this on the slog and couldn't resist.

Defective Yeti published a few factual inaccuracies in "The Path To 9/11". (comments are mine)

• Evidence that the Taliban was founded by Tipper Gore is (alas) circumstantial at best.
  
  
• The scene in which Howard Dean punches Jesus is a dramatization. (He actually punched St Francis, but concerns that depicting St Francis would be misunderstood by non-Catholics dictated a change.)
  
  
• Blooper! When the Clintons are in bed and Bill is reading to Hillary "to get her in the mood" he is holding Mein Kampf upside-down. (His accent, however, is impeccable.)
  
  
• The finale, in which Bush crashes Airforce One into a remote Afghan stronghold, emerges unscathed from the wreckage, and defeats Al Qaeda using nunchucks and pyrokinesis, is actually a composite of several different events.

There's more over at the defective yeti...

The Death of the Hired Man

It's a poem by Robert Frost, and the source of 'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.'

I read the full poem for the first time today, and these passages stood out to me.

He hates to see a boy the fool of books.
Poor Silas, so concerned for other folk,
And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope,
So now and never any different.'

And nothing to look backward to with pride / And nothing to look forward to with hope

God, that's lonely.

Silas is what he is -- we wouldn't mind him--
But just the kind that kinsfolk can't abide.
He never did a thing so very bad.
He don't know why he isn't quite as good
As anyone.

It's just...ow. This reminds me of Certain Women: "Look, Em, you're bright. And Billy's not. That's something you can't understand. I mean, it's simply not possible for highly intelligent people to understand people who are not." There are times when understanding isn't enough, when differences are too huge. And it's hard.