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It looks like we have a modern day Deepthroat, only they’re posting what they know about the shenanigans going on in the Department of Justice on the blog Talking Points Memo rather then in clandestine meetings in D.C. parking garages,

Someone with a very strong knowledge of Bush administration history is posting anonymously to TPMmuckraker and causing a lot of heads to turn, not only other liberal bloggers but all people interested in White House policy. For ease of reading I have archived all of “Mr. Blank”’s posts here from his most explosive thread. His other threads can be found and read through below, but beware– he knows his stuff, and his posts are LONG and SCARY!

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The women behind Mrs Woolf 

 Upon reaching adulthood, she would never live without some form of domestic “help”, and battling the “timid spiteful servant mind” throughout her life both enraged her and sustained her. It was easier for her to regard her servants as not quite real than to accept the fact of her dependence on others.

Woolf’s diary became a repository for all her meanest thoughts about her servants.

She saw in her long-standing servant Nellie Boxall’s rages “human nature undressed”, as though she’d plucked her out of a zoo, and could not fully convince herself that, despite deserving better conditions, they could ever have an inner life as rich and inquiring as hers.

When she tried to introduce characters into her novels based on the servants she knew, they would begin as sympathetic wholes and end as cardboard cutouts.

Woolf is rightfully thought of as a gifted writer and pioneer in women’s rights, her insights in the human condition and her ability to weave those thoughts into words are worthy of envy from any word smith. She isn’t the first person to somehow partially detach themselves from the lives they actually lead and their inner intellectual lives. Thomas Jefferson comes to mind, someone who I admire. America’s ideals are certainly Jeffersonian, but Jefferson himself was a wealthy land owner not an everyman, a member of the well educated elite who kept slaves even though he promoted a more egalitarian society in his writings and held the very radical concept for his day, that all men regardless of race or national origin were born equals and should be treated as such under the law. Woolf and Jefferson demonstrate the frailty of hero worship. At most those that we admire get it mostly right most of the time.