Slothrop: If anything is more terrifying to Slothrop than being a hypocrite, it's losing to Ass-Head in fantasy baseball. Since that's never happened, Noam cogently pointed out that Slothrop is indeed a complete hypocrite, and a lazy one, too. Discomforting, upsetting words, but necessary ones. This land of ours, which still has a few things going for it, needs more tough love from Noam and a good long look in the looking glass. Which is, as Koko and Smart Boris suggest, what The Wire is about. Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fall. So as season 3 of The Wire ended tonight with an image of a good idea torn down because it wasn't obedient, it has become clear that Noam and Bunny Colvin are the same preacher man: 
Q: What do scholars achieve by covering up the truth?
Noam Chomsky: We all know the motives because we share them. Careerism. Trying to get ahead... If you go in the wrong direction and aren't obedient, you may get weeded out. It happens to a lot of people. You may end up being a taxi driver... [So we] end up with an extremely obedient elite. Just think of your own experience."
So Slothrop is sitting here, thinking about the government, and thinking about the law, but most of all, feeling in his bones that the time has come to step into the boxing ring.
Smart Boris: Smart Boris is pleased by your decisions to hate yourself and to pursue physical violence against others, even if that violence must come in controlled exhibitions and not in the hand and head-eliminating chaos of the Baltimore harbor. You're a good man, Slothrop, a good, invisible man. So go on home, soldier; you done for the day.
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