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The Wall Street Journal "Washington Wire" reports that today, in the Halloween spirit, Republican leaders will unveil a "horror stories of the IRS" web site.
The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.
Many parents would recoil in horror at being considered fashion victims with regard to names, but when your children ( Marcus and Titus ) are in school with Tacitus and Rufus and Dædalus you can be consoled by the fact that in the school down the road, the children of Danii and Du'aine ( Gluteus and Mucus ) are being mercilessly ragged by Tahini and Pooh, themselves the children of Elvis and Moonbeam.
Johnson had no trouble finding fairly exact counterparts in his London of the eighteenth century for many of the blights of Juvenal's ancient Rome, but there was really nothing to match the horror of the amateur poetry reading in Trajan's time; the closest analogy Johnson could come up with, an elegant one under the circumstances, is his “female atheist.”
In a tragic story, graphic violence makes horror more horrible.