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Thursday, April 17, 2003

# Posted 8:09 AM by Ariel David Adesnik  

WHEN "I TOLD YOU SO" GETS UGLY it becomes Schadenfreude. (I'm not going to translate that, since fluent German is a pre-req for reading OxBlog.) Not that ugly is bad. In fact, I enjoyed every line of Noemie Emery's and Jonathan Last's Schadenfreude compilations in the Daily Standard.

At some point, though, one has to recognize that scoring debating points at the expense of The Nation and Indymedia has its limits as a serious genre of political discourse. Now I don't mean to say that either conservatives in general or the Daily Standard in particular have forsaken serious political analysis for the sake of taunting the left. But it has become a little much, especially in the blogosphere.

As someone living in Oxford with both a Union Jack and the Stars & Stripes hanging in his window, I know that a lot of us had to put up with a lot of taunts from the left before and during this war. And we needed to get that frustration out of our system. But now its time to get serious.
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