This is the way the world ends The Hollow Men – T. S. Eliot (1925)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If Armitage hadn’t spouted off, I think it would’ve been Judith Miller doing the "leaking." Wouldn’t that have been just a wonderful thing? We’d have her in the spotlight, and we’d have her whole notebook – with the notes and sources for her disasterous pre-war intelligence stories. Armitage said he ‘let the Administration down<\/strong>‘ [by leaking]. I wonder if he didn’t ‘let the Administration off<\/strong>‘:<\/p>\n What might have been is an abstraction Burnt Norton – T.S.Eliot (1934)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. The Hollow Men – T. S. Eliot (1925) I was looking up CBS News to let them know I wasn’t going to be watching Katie Couric anymore. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/a15.gif\")
I was looking up CBS News to let them know I wasn’t going to be watching Katie Couric anymore. I just can’t tolerate the possibility that she’d put Rush Limbaugh in my face again like she did tonight. But I ran across this<\/strong><\/a>, Richard Armitage<\/strong><\/a> on tape saying he did it – outed Valerie Plame.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/plame_time.gif\")
<\/p>\n\n
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.<\/em><\/p>\n