Sunday, December 18, 2011

Kim Jong-Il Dead at 69

I'm not going to say ave atque vale to this wicked individual who kept North Korea as his enslaved domain.

A related thought: so many high-profile exits lately ... Hitch, Havel, now Kim.  Was there a memo ...?

UPDATE 1: The Insta-Prof links to a bon mot for the occasion:  "I'd like to think God let Havel and Hitchens pick the third."

By the way, with the exits of both Qaddafi and Kim, this seems more fitting than ever.

UPDATE 2: The aftermath could get messy.  I'm reminded of this Atlantic piece from 2006.

3 comments:

lumpy said...

I've been making my way through the Inferno lately and am wondering which which part of the frozen circle ol' Jong Il will fall into.

Mad Minerva said...

Give him bin Laden, Saddam, and Qaddafi to be the worst roommates ever.

lumpy said...

Indeed, and those would be just the most recent additions.

"I'd like to think God let Havel and Hitchens pick the third."

Sweet. Maybe God would also give them first-taunting privileges.