Well, Shakespeare, he's in the alley [Jack M.]

With his pointed shoes and his bells
Speaking to some Venezuelan Dictator
Who says, he knows me well.

OK...so thats not exactly how the lyric goes in Bob Dylan's "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again", but how many songs have been written about crazy South American dictators anyway?

Besides that musical theater homo-shit "Evita", that is. And I'm not about to quote that.

Because the minute I do, you morons will be trading favorite Broadway musical links in the comments, and it will be all my fault.

No, I'm sticking with the Dylan lyric because it gives me a tenuous segue into a much more relevant quote. One that should be perfectly well known to a bunch of foaming at the mouth caesarists like, well, us.

ANTONY:
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

That's Shakespeare, Holmes. "Julius Caesar" to be exact.

Why am I adding Shakespeare to the AoS Lexicon?

Because Venezuela's muy loco leader has decided that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should be referred to from now on as Chavez' dog and that's the greatest quote referring to dogs that I can think of off the top of my head.

President Hugo Chavez called U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld a "dog of war" on Tuesday, saying the defense chief has no business suggesting neighboring countries are concerned about Venezuela's arms purchases.

Chavez said it's disingenuous for Rumsfeld to say he knows of no country that is threatening Venezuela, and he insisted that the U.S. is a threat.

Heh...sounds to me like Chavez is the dog with a bone for the US. I'm not too sure that anyone besides Keith Olbermann and the DU has a hard-on for Mr. Chavez.

"If this man is saying that my neighbors are worried because the weapons that Venezuela is acquiring could go to the leftist guerrillas, I need to know, President Uribe, if you have some type of worry regarding this," Chavez said. "It should be you who says it, not the dog of war."

In his televised speech, Chavez also chuckled as he called Rumsfeld "little dog" and "Mr. Dog."

Uribe is the President of Columbia. Which begs an interesting question. Should Venezuela and Columbia get into a shooting war, is that not what one would define as a "win-win" proposition? Doesn't it setup a gangsta Oil Cartel vs. the criminal Cali Cartel? Does anyone here see a screenplay for "Scarface 2" in the works?

The thing that gets me, though, is just how many dogs the Bush Administration has. There is Barney. And Miss Beazley is running around somewhere. And you can't forget that poodle, Tony Blair. And now Rumsfeld.

Oh well, so long as the dogs in question aren't beagles, I suppose.

Because that would raise serious competency questions.

posted by Ace at 01:04 AM

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