Friday, June 22, 2007

SOMETHING LIGHTER

A Thought on Lott, Goats, and Fences To Head Into the Weekend On

Few e-mails from readers have made me laugh like this one from Joe:

Trent Lott: "If the answer is 'build a fence' I've got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain't no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence."

Right, senator.  Fences don't work.  That's why no ranches use barbed wire, why no prisons are surrounded by high walls, why pricey residential communities never have security gates, and why there aren't traffic barricades to protect government buildings from car and truck bombs.  Because fences don't work.  Goats can find a way around them.

That's why China was converted to a barbarian state by invaders instead of absorbing and assimiliating wave after wvey of invader and making them Chinese.  (Because the Great Wall, you see, didn't serve as a semi-permeable barrier where outer barbarians traded and were partially sino-cized by controlled contact for decades before they invaded.)

That's why Hadrian's Wall failed to protect Romano-Britain from the northern barbarians, and why no Norman castle or medieval city had a wall, because fences don't work.

Trent Lott is to fences what Rosie O'Donnell is to metalurgy.

Any chance we can trade Lott to the Democrats for, say, Biden?

06/22 05:21 PMShare