Conrad Black Wraps up 2009

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I enjoy Conrad Black's patrician contempt, which he has raised to an art form. Here, he casts his caustic eye on events of the last year ...

As we say farewell to this rather dismal decade, which opened with Millennial celebrations of a New World Order and The End of History, and has been thoroughly disfigured by terrorism, economic stupidity, inept political leadership and untrammeled vulgarity of public tastes, I dare to hope for somewhat better things (for the world as well as my family and self ).

Readers will have noticed that Copenhagen was about as complete a mockery as was forecast, here and elsewhere. Thousands of protesters, festooned with banners about the water level in Tuvalu, and dressed as polar bears and seals, inanely screaming at the earnest Global Coolers, had to be restrained by the gentle Danish police.

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2380724#ixzz0au9fdOGl

It goes on at some length. If you like this kind of thing, this is Black with a broad canvas. Here's another taste:

... Al Gore has made a lot of money from it. Indeed, it must be said that this unlikely man has had the greatest revenge of anyone ever wrongfully deprived of the U.S. presidency, except perhaps Richard Nixon. Gore has grown rich, eminent, won a Nobel Prize, completely disrupted the world and turned international relations into a gigantic slap-stick farce.

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I enjoy Conrad Black's patrician contempt, which he has raised to an art form. Here, he casts his caustic eye on events of the last year ...

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2380724#ixzz0au9fdOGl

It goes on at some length. If you like this kind of thing, this is Black with a broad canvas. Here's another taste:

Oh Lord (pun intended). This is actually not very good stuff; there's no substance.

But at least Black succeeds in making his Coulter-esque wife seem sober and brilliant by comparison.