There Ought To Be A Law
"Godwin's Law" has it that whichever side is the first to invoke Hitler or Nazis in a political argument loses. There was a time, before the Third Reich, when people would regularly invoke the fall of the Roman Empire to warn against trends they didn't like.
There are many theories as to why the fall happened (some even claim there was no fall), but it's not as if the cause or causes are known for sure. So we need a name for this convenient, cliched comparison.
In his latest, Pat Buchanan starts by comparing the trouble the West is having with illegal immigration to the fall of Rome. I know, let's call it Buchanan's Law.
posted by LAGuy @ 2:59 AM
2 Comments:
Didn't Rome fall due to too much homosexuality?
The Columbus Dispatch had a political cartoon yesterday or the day before, I didn't note whether it was local or syndicated, that made me laugh out loud (a rare reaction to such things).
It had a bust-level view (no, not that kind of bust, you perv) drawing of a reasonable-looking Donkey talking to a Cheney-looking Cheney. The donkey says, "Iraq is a mess. We should have a reasonable discussion of our options."
And the scary-looking Cheney says, "If you love terrorists so much, why don't you just marry them?"
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