Friday, May 4, 2012

Get Him to the Greek

The Greek stuff always gets 'em in the end, writes J.R. Dunn:
Nemesis is what is taking down Barack Obama... 
Nobody acts with the arrogance of an Obama without paying for it. In the ancient dramas, it was called hubris. (A lot of debate exists as to how that word was actually pronounced, there being no "u" sound in ancient Greek. Some say it's an "ee" sound; some say a "y.") The hero apes the gods; begins to view himself as more than human, beyond the laws that prevail even on Olympus; and the machinery of fate starts grinding. And once that machinery goes into motion, it doesn't stop until its victim has been reduced to dust.
Nemesis is a beeyotch, eh, Barry?

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