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SO MANY DESPOTS, SO LITTLE TIME: Roger Simon reports from Copenhagen. ?I kept thinking of Marx?s?

By Glenn Reynolds

SO MANY DESPOTS, SO LITTLE TIME: Roger Simon reports from Copenhagen. “I kept thinking of Marx?s famous rewrite of Hegel ? the one about history being replayed the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce. I don?t know about tragedy, but there certainly was plenty of farce to go around ? demonstrators dressed as clowns, middle-aged Brazilian ladies in tiger suits and Amazonian false breasts promising to save the rain forests, an old guy from Estonia pushing a model elephant he had constructed entirely of recycled trash. These were Norman Mailer?s Armies of the Night gone globalist and, boy, did they appear useless. What will they all do when it?s over and they have to go home?”

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