Folks. Maybe we should have another million-person march to Washington D.C.? Imagine... thousands of people... hundreds of thousands... chanting "Impeach" together... impassioned speeches by Maya Angelou, for example. Or Sean Penn. It'd be awesome!

Well, it will likely have no political impact of any kind. But a lot of us will get laid, just like in the 60s.

BUSH: And uh... you must understand. For many years now I've wanted to bend Rush over...

RUSH: Right on. Right on.

BUSH: And have, uh, my way with him. I do recall Mr. Limbaugh misunderestimating my, uh, abilities. I will now prove him wrong.

RUSH: Right on. Right on.

BUSH: He will be sore for years.

RUSH: Right on, right on.

BUSH: And then I'm going to have pizza. And Rush is going to be my slave forever and live under my bed.

RUSH: Yeah! Yeah, you see? He's going to make it happen. Right on, right on. Yeah. That's right. And I dare, I DARE the kook fringe to say differently. Right on.

Yeah, it appears that we have an entrenched elite that urges us to trust what they say on the basis of their credentials as opposed to the actual substance of what they say. Credentials are fine, but they are much easier to come by than actual competence, alas. Otherwise, anyone who's ever graduated from, say, Yale or, say, Harvard would be a brilliant leader and administrator. George W. Bush has brilliantly demonstrated that to be not necessarily the case.

If there's anything that Americans should take away from this long nightmare is that just because someone has an Ivy League pedigree, a long-list of high-profile positions in government, journalism, business or whatever, a nice suit and tie and a reassuring gravitas, it doesn't mean that they speak the truth. This sucks, because this means there is no easy way to determine whom to trust. Before, we could just assume that hey, this guy looks like a Serious, Wise Man, and therefore we should perhaps listen to what he's saying. That's why Kronkite and Brokaw and Jennings seemed to matter. Now? Now we have to actually think for ourselves.

Crap. :(

Dick ran already and got sunk during the nomination fight, very very quickly. He's just not charismatic in the least. If there is ANY benefit to our image-obsessed society it's that a creepazoid like Cheney will never stand a chance. Those Republicans who don't outright hate him are afraid of him. Those who aren't afraid of him don't trust him. (And why should they? He shot his friend in the face!) And there's SO much dirt on him that anyone on the Democratic side will have a field day during a campaign. Just think about the attack ads! He is the most un-electable high-profile Republican out there.

Seriously, I'm as paranoid as the next guy, especially after what we've been through lately, but this just ain't happening.

Yeah, you heard him. He did answer. We're the Sons of Light fighting against the Sons of Darkness in an apocalyptic battle worthy of the Dead Sea Scrolls. So look at this in the context of accountability. C'mon, he's too busy being the Crusader for Good to be held accountable. The scary thing is, he'll go to his grave happily convinced of his Rightness.

Another scary thing is, the "forces of intolerance" put 19 "kids" into airplanes and killed ~3,000 American citizens. Horrific, yes. Indibutably. The Forces of Good, however, put 150,000 kids with guns into Iraq and trashed the place to Hell. And that's ... okay? Say what you will about Hussein (may rot in the specially appointed rung of the aforementioned Hell), but he's not done nearly as much damage to Iraq as we have. It's hard for a patriotic American like myself to stomach this.

It's much easier for me to watch our so-called Decider brush off any mention of accountability as if it's some irritating gadfly interfering with his Mission From God (tm). Makes it easy to despite the asshole. If he were nice to us, it'd be harder to see the atrocities that he's done.

So, Mr. Bush, keep up the good work. Hopefully, your actions will damage your "mission" beyond repair and, once you're fully drowned in your own infamy, we can get on with cleaning up the mess you've made.

Well, what did you expect, easy and concrete answers? Basic science doesn't work like that. It will take decades to even begin to understand the basic mechanisms of human sexuality. Not only that, how would one even compare mutant female mice with wild-type, but post-menopausal female humans? Of COURSE we need more data! Or are you ready to develop a sweeping ironclad theory about how human females get turned on based on only two studies, performed different ways and with different objectives in two completely different systems? Scientists like to have lots of data to substantiate their theories. But they also like to publish what they have so far, so that other scientists could do other experiments at the same time. Anything wrong with that?

It's easy to chuckle at the silly nerds doing their silly experiments in the lab. And yet that's the main way in which humanity has been able to understand itself and the Universe it lives in for the last several centuries. If you've got a better idea on how to learn these things, I'm all ears.

Glenn, I'm glad that you (and others like you) keep writing about this, even if it gets repetitive and depressing. The idea that state-sponsored terror is WRONG, no matter what the reasons and justifications for it are, that it's wrong per se and that it should NEVER exist has to be hammered into our collective consciousness so hard that even another 9/11 (God forbid) could not pull it out.