It appears we still read this swill anyway, don't we?

Perhaps not for long. One more major expose starring Farhad Manjoo and I'm outa here. There are better places to spend my money.

Traumatic injury during childhood impacts a human personality in an analogous manner that a diamond cutter's blade cuts a diamond: sometimes the result is beautiful, but sometimes the rock just crumbles into diamond dust.

But the process of trauma is always experienced as a pain that echoes and echoes throughout a person's life. Those who withdraw into themselves and don't leave their houses unless they have to, limit their exposure to the trauma-echoes caused by their initial injury. Those who try to live their lives as survivors end up harming themselves every time they try to overcome alone what can't be overcome alone. Here I am not referring to trauma that occurs in an adult; what traumatizes an adult would likely kill a child, or break their personality into tiny shards. Something as simple as neglecting to change a child's diaper for hours at a time can be devastating to the psyche of a particular child at a particular developmental stage.

Those who do kill are often admired, or secretly envied, by those who choose not to cross that line. The sanctimonious ones -- those who not only choose not to kill but who also get on their righteous high horses about their alleged virtue -- presume to be the bearers of human truth and human justice. These necrophiles are often more despicable than the cretins they claim to put to death.

One point we can all agree on: the personality that committed the heinous acts of murder can no longer be tolerated or permitted to exist. The offender should be permitted to either rehabilitate or take themselves out. I do not believe in financing an institutionalized death industry and exposing innocent human beings to further traumatic injury simply because, "it's my job, it's my duty." Killing people to end killing is not a job or an assignment, it's just furthering the abuse and the insanity that brought the process on in the first place.

Here's a clue: if you want to keep people from growing up and killing other people, STOP KILLING PEOPLE. Dugh.

...it becomes blatantly obvious that your democracy has been torn to shreds by the mongrel hord in power, it is time to read your Second Amendment, again, and start taking it seriously. Deadly seriously.

While I approve of, and appreciate, the intellectual banter surrounding this issue, I long ago decided that Farhad Majoo was a fraud and an apologist for the lowest common denominator within American society. I likewise decided that the election of 2004 was stolen.

The evidence of tyranny is overwhelming. It is time to suspend the state of disbelief and denial fed by the intellectualization of the obvious and to become coldly furious. Icily, boldly, furious.

These are not honorable men occupying the Whitehouse but common hoodlums masquerading as country gentlemen. Honorable men know when they have no valuable skill to offer up to their fellows and they cease and desist all increasingly pathetic attempts to volunteer themselves and their countrymen up for greater and greater levels of humiliation.

George W. Bush is, and was, a chief executive loser with plenty of documentation to back up that claim, and none to contradict it.

Richard Cheney is, and was, a failed and miserable human being as evidenced by his ludicrously poor health and continued compulsion to destroy what health he has in reserve. This observation is likewise thoroughly documented and acknowledged.

I, like most Americans, believe in giving all men and women of courage and strength multiple chances to redeem themselves.

But I steadfastly and consistently refuse to gamble the future of any human being on the promise of those who have never reciprocated in kind or in favorable predisposition towards their fellows.

Place these criminals in an asylum where they can live out the rest of their days blowing spit-bubbles and drooling on themselves. And, please -- PLEASE -- let Farhad Manjoo be their orderly.

The point is not that Democrats have become lost in a traumatizing miasma of incompetence coupled with brass-plated mendacity. The point is not that Democrats have rested on their laurels for so long they do not know the difference between, "wrested," and, "rested." The point is not even that the Republican Party has become a far more despicable entity than even the likes of Al Capone's mob at its worst.

The point is that 100 years into the steepest portion of a downhill slide of the world's once most promising democracy is that we still do not, as a nation, see what we are looking at.

The point is that the ignorant do not really care how or why they live, and the malevolent ignorantly prey on the ignorant as if this act, of itself, spawns progress, rather than the diminution of the human species.

Anecdotal tales of how Rome was torn apart by a blood-thirsty band of huns from the East persist to this day, but it was not the huns that felled Rome. Rome fell by its own hand.

The evidence of the power of ignorance is often, if sadly, ignored.