Wednesday, October 12, 2005

My friend, the romantic

As you can probably tell, my hornless friend is a bit of a romantic. That is, despite his original manifesto of gloom, he's a little quixotic. Imagine destroying Pittsburgh, leaving nothing standing over two meters tall, and then salting the earth. Yes, it indeed would be a day of great joy.

Like Cato the Elder before him, the Rhino calls for the destruction of the city that has so plagued us. But, in all honesty, that was probably much easier for the Romans than the task the Rhino lays before us. After all, Scipio merely had to overcome a stronger foe, fighting on its own soil, and led by perhaps the greatest military commander of his age. We, on the other hand, have to figure out how to overcome decades of choking and losing.

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