This is what happens when you continue to look at the spinning wheel and hear the words, "Bush is great. Bomb Iraq" over and over and over again. Obviously, Bill Kristol and the American Enterprise Institute stared long and hard at the spinning wheel. At this rate, with Bush registering his opposition to stem cell research and his stubborn resolve to be "victorious" in Iraq, he'll drag the entire GOP into the abyss. And they'll go willingly, too.

I've got tickets to the Battle of Armageddon. Any takers?

It's not too late to see the Middle East become a giant smoking crater.

The rule of law wins yet again.

Twice in one month.

My God. I'm breathless.

Having once been a Christian (I'm now cured, thank God), I used to hear all the time about "persecution" coming from those who did not believe,and it was supposed to be really bad. They would try you in court and imprison you and all that. Well, beyond a few sneers, it never got quite as bad as they described. This is America, after all, and the rhetoric about direct discrimination against Christians is about as overblown as the suggestion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and the clear intent to use them against the US. Unfortunately that rhetoric still sticks in some parts of the country. The truth is a little more shall we say, "nuanced". If this were anyplace other than the USA, let's say Afghanistan, where a man was about to be executed for his Christian profession, they might have room for alarm. Sadly for them, this is a country of laws (at least, last I checked) where your religious faith shouldn't get you in trouble (usually). But the Jerry Falwell crowd has to find a reason to scrap so they come up with this twisted bullshit that Christians are "under attack" when the truth is that Christians historically have made more of a nuisance of themselves before cooler heads prevailed. Whether it's the Puritans in Colonial times or the Mormons getting run out of every place they settled in, or the boycotting of "The DaVinci Code" by Catholics, or the continuing intrusion upon our laws and the Constitution, they cry "persecution" when anyone disagrees with them or just wants to be left alone. The truth is, as long as we remain a democracy, the worst they'll get is a legal rebuke instead of the real persecution they're crying out for. Like being fed to the lions. Not to channel Ann Coulter here (dear God, not here!), but I never met a group of people who enjoyed their suffering so much.

I'm beginning to sense a certain...denouement, a sort of "shit hitting the fan" with all this twisted rhetoric and tortured logic coming from conservatives. Maybe it's just me, but the more I hear the tormented "reasoning" for all that the Bush Administration does, the more I hear ideologues (like Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, et al) offer insane rationales for the state of affairs in the country, the more I think that a time is coming and maybe not too long that the lies are going to catch up. I have this sense that not only does no one believe the lies anymore, but that the lies are going to explode in the faces of those who tell them. So, if I'm right, Ann Coulter will probably melt down here at some point, and the next thing we hear from her is that she has some deep personal issues that are going to take time to work through and that she will be going away for an indeterminate length of time.

Bill O'Reilly will begin his "O'Reilly Factor" by howling at the moon. Actually howling at the moon. And he'll invite his guests to join him.

Kellyanne Conway will show up on one of these shout fests in her birthday suit of skin and bones.

Rush Limbaugh will remove his hearing aids and down Oxycontin live on the air and tell us all how great being a dopehead is. Tony Snow will break down in sobs at the podium in front of the White House Press Corps and say "I just can't do this anymore!" And Sean Hannity will admit on live television that he has had heretofore secret fantasies about Newt Gingrich.

Okay...maybe that's a bit out there, but something is about to happen with all this loudmouth madness and those who purvey it. Don't ask me why I feel this. I just do. No one will be more shocked than I if it happens.