I am sort of an easy-going rightwinger. I could never bring myself to blindly hate Bill Clinton - and I always respected his formidable political talents. (I also cut the French a bit of slack.) But tonight he pushed me over the edge. To paraphrase Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth:

I did not hate Bill Clinton until this instant!*

And what lit my fuse? On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart this evening, Clinton was talking about writing his autobiography and he said that he did not have any writer's block in the two and a half years he was working on it.

What more can I say - whatever demons he wrestles, they aren't the ones that keep me sitting in front of a blank screen unsure how to get what is in my head onto paper.


*Fittingly the actual quote is:

I was not angry since I came to France until this instant.

Henry V says this after the Battle of Agincourt, on learning that the French army raided the British baggage train and killed the boys who tended it. Captain Fluellen (representing the Welsh contingent of the Coalition of the Willing) laments, "Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly against the law of arms: 'tis arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offered; in your conscience now, is it not?"