~ is mr. bin laden trying to impress someone with his unfashionable lateness, co-opting the idea which mr. haggard had already informed us, twenty years previously?

  “the u.s. government will lead the american people in…into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”
    -osama bin laden, 2001

  “are we rollin’ downhill like a snowball headed for hell?”
    -merle haggard, 1981

~ perhaps it should also be noted here that mr. haggard has been named ‘man of the year’ for bakersfield, california, while mr. bin laden lost his chance at time magazine’s version of that title to the fascist mayor of new york city.

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