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...seems enough with regard to typical comedies, Corky Romano takes it a step further. In order to pull their plan off, Pete and Paul intimidate a computer hacker into making Corky a new identity with an FBI caliber resume. After the hacker is done with Corky, he becomes Agent Pissant, super agent, and is launched into his brothers’ crazy scheme...
Things get complicated when stupidity and conspiracy go into business together--as they like to do. Remember the Watergate plots hatched in the White House basement: Nixon's "plumbers" had the low cunning of Daffy Duck thinking hard. Impressive: an entire Administration brought down by an immense yet pissant doofusness, culminating in Nixon's inexplicable failure to burn the tapes...
...ahead, Lord, leave me out of your book. Add some other name to your rolls, the name of some insignificant pissant who is sorry for everything he does but cannot do anything for others. When the world conflagrates and I'm not there to save it, everyone will be sorry. Except for me. I'll never be sorry...
Lyndon Johnson called it a "damned little pissant country." Even less flattering language was used by many of the half a million Americans in uniform who made their way through, around and above it: trooping across swamps, languishing in Quonset huts, piloting PT boats, spacing out on drugs, shelling from offshore, amputating limbs, bombing from B-52s, killing, maiming -- and getting maimed and killed. How all that ended is well known. Bill Clinton, a college dissenter during the height of hostilities in Vietnam, showed last week that he could put a coda to that sad history and make a fresh...
...American country. China interests him primarily through the prism of Moscow-Washington-Peking politics. I once had an argument about all this with Vadim Zagladin, deputy to Boris Ponomarev, chief of the Central Committee's International Department. Speaking of Africa, I remarked on the futility of "playing with some pissant little 'liberation' committees that come into being overnight and disappear after a few months." Zagladin's response was revealing: "You sound just like your boss. Gromyko has no smell for the ideological side of things. He's just too pragmatic, and so are you. You Foreign Ministry people...