Pretzel Logic
From a piece first published on January 18, 2002, in The Moscow Times:
The bloviations of public hypocrisy are a never-ceasing wonder to behold. The art of mouthing sanctimonious twaddle while peddling murderous hardball on the side requires a degree of moral dislocation – an almost total divorce of word from deed, of image from reality – rarely seen outside madhouses, government offices, televised pulpits and certain caves in remote Afghanistan.
And these days there are no more adept practitioners of this dark art than those mighty Twin Towers now holding up the values of Western Civilization – George