SOME PEOPLE have been making fun of Wallace Shawn’s interview in which he makes overheated statements about the war. But what I liked was the juxtaposition of this statement:

The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

With this one:

I saw ”South Pacific” as a child and thought it was terrifying.

By the transitive principle, then, the United States is like “South Pacific.” I can live with that.

UPDATE: Spoons on what’s terrifying: “He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.”

Heh.