Back in the early 1900s the Industrial Workers of the World was formed with the singular idea that international syndicalism should replace government of the world's many by the few and powerful. Naturally, the Wobblies, as they were called, were reviled by the powers that be and eventually crushed using the full powers of the state.

But it appears that they may have been on to something. Has the hour for the concept of One Big Union come round again?

Mark Penn declares Hillary to actually BE President.

Names Himself Prince of Mars and Lord Protector of Uranus.

Concludes statement with "Obama who?"

Film at 11...

Maybe if he'd actually served when called, he'd take the sending of other's children into harm's way a tad more seriously.

If LW is any example of the generation which stands to inherit it.

"Help me, ersatz father Cary, for I'm much too dysfunctional to either accept responsibility for my living conditions (it was my illness, you see, or maybe the dogs', that caused this mess, not me myself, not the real me) or to be a complete adult and replace a carpet."

Good grief. What's next? Bill-paying lessons? Grocery buying tutorials?

Grow up. You're an adult living in an adult world. Learn to function-- God knows, we all did-- or hospitalize yourself and live out the rest of your days in the care of an institution (another Mommy and Daddy substitute).

This actually makes Her Imperial Majesty more of a "combat veteran" than George W. (I'm envious of our troops in Afghanistan) Bush.

Although the sniper fire story seems dubious, at best.

I'm just tired of overgrown children masquerading as adults and expecting the rest of society to clean up after them or solve their-- supposedly insurmountable, yet invariably self-imposed-- problems for them.

So, damn me to hell for expecting adults to act like adults... I'm sure it's an especially toasty corner, filled with eternal whining about not being able to replace carpets or change channels on the TV or feed oneself.

Okay, maybe a little mean. But in a good way.

That such a moving and meaningful speech could inspire such vitriol.

Is that inherent in the nature of the subject matter or does it speak more to the nature of this particular contest in which we find ourselves enmeshed?

Maybe both, I don't know.

He is right, though. Allow this to divide and divert us and the next election it will be some other ephemeral-- yet oh, so urgent- issue of the day. And then another. And another.

You will recall that in Vietnam the logical fallacy ran that it was often necessary to destroy a village in order to save it.

This is, quite simply, history repeating itself-- That, in order to save the Iraqis, we must stay and perforce destroy them.

Yeah, it's great that she visited Bosnia.

But please, if it's too dangerous, send the First Lady?!

What's next? Did she play a role in the 1993 "Black Hawk Down" rescue attempt in Mogadishu too?

It's this kind of obvious hyperbole and puffing of the truth that, rightly or wrongly, calls the rest of her much vaunted experience into question.

And we can all sit around in a circle and shoot at each other for each respectively not doing the "correct" thing in the "correct" way to bring about social change.

That always works SOOOOOOOO fucking well for us!

The truth is that demonstrations and correspondence and one-on-one discussion and probably a million other things I can't think of right now ALL contribute to bringing public opinion around.

You want to snark at somebody, there's a whole political spectrum over on the Right that deserves every bit of criticism poured upon them that we, in our oh-so-creative-and- myriad ways, are apparently able to come up with. You know, the guys responsible for the Iraq quagmire, the economic nightmare, the 40 some-odd million without healthcare and, oh yeah, tax cuts for the wealthy in a time of so-called war.

And, by the way, demonstrations DID help bring about an end to the Vietnam War. The American public didn't just wake up one morning, spontaneously decide it was time for that particular national nightmare to end and in a fit of letter writing induce Nixon to withdraw the troops.

A move unlikely to effect his income one whit. Fatcats stick together and take care of their own.

Kind of like the Mafia.

We'll be sending a lot more of his ilk into retirement soon via the ballot box.

Over at RushLimbaugh Polls, 100% of knuckle-draggers say that there's no way they'd trust ANY Democrat. Also, 95% of troglodytic dittoheads say they'd vote for a tree stump before voting for either "Hussein Obama" or "the bitch." The other 5% still seem to believe they can vote for Ronald Reagan, despite his being dead for many years.

Important news, huh?

Her Imperial Majesty demonstrates that she is willing to do or say anything to attain power.

It is deeply ironic that she criticizes Obama for a perceived lack of character. From misrepresenting her record on Iraq to the over-inflating of her duties as First Lady, she is not now trustworthy, nor has she ever-- at least in the history of this campaign-- been so.

This is just more tired, old politics of the dying past. How very inspirational. And, sadly, what a telling and appropriate symbol of Her Imperial Majesty's character.

Yeah, not like Her Imperial Majesty at all--

When it was too dangerous to send the President, they sent the me... Oh, and my teenage daughter, Sheryl Crow and Sinbad.

Please.