To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Checking the Credibility of the Critics
Gateway Pundit has a delicious rundown of predictions made by critics of the war effort and how they panned out. In these days when the administration is widely accused of having presented a false and rosy picture to the American public during the runup to hostilities it is important to note that the war's opponents were far wider of the mark than the proponents, and to remember that these are for the most part the same people who are now breathlessly announcing the onset of a civil war. Check it out here.
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