I refer you to a 1996(?)60 Minutes interview with the king of Bhutan in which he nearly wept with sadness and anger as he noted the intrusion of western satellite TV into his country. He was embarrassed for us all.

Poor guy. His people obviously feel different since they seem to be the ones that are watching it.

Our system is so jacked up and obfuscated, all that matters is sticking around after the vote and becoming a delegate. Like the General Election, the Primary is just a beauty contest. All that matters are the delegates and who they really support, not who they are cheering for.

Would be the "joy" of getting to rub our neverending warmongering in the faces of the "antiwar" "party", oops, I mean what will become our "Happy Humanitarian Democracy Student Fun Missions Abroad" (the language will have to be Churched up so the blind and the ignorant don't perceive our neverending wars, conscription, and dictator fetishes as what they really are).

Everything will be all right. The Feds are going to give us $150B in tax cuts. That means that it's all good in the hood, we can still spend $500B or $600B Spreading Democracy overseas with our soon-to-be-downgraded bonds. Something like that.

Nothing to be afraid of. American Idol just started back up too! Hurray!

Like I said in your last article about McCain, they are all speaking in code. They all know who did it, it is implied, they just leave out the He-who-shall-not-be-named or the you-know-who at the end.

Watching the machine babble on about the "2000 McCain Smear" is like listening the wizards in Harry Potter babble on about their own biggest taboo, mentioning Lord Voldemort by name. Voldemort's Dark Wizard followers didn't even call him by name.

Voldemort was a wizard just like the rest of them and came from a powerful wizard family. The rest of the Wizard Population knew what he was responsible for and the things he did, but mentioning his name was taboo. Just like mentioning Bush's name is currently taboo, so instead the candidates talk about digging up Ronald Reagan's bloated corpse and giving it a rimjob, complete with a reach-around (you know, like the courteous gentlemen that they are), or they talk about "change". "change" from what?

Change from "Bush"... whatever that entails. It amuses me how myopic people can be about the whole thing, seriously believing that you can kill a hydra by cutting off one of its heads.

So when are tanks and jets and missiles going to run on flywheels and batteries? Some time in the next million years?

Now now. No time to get partisan on things like spying and torture when it is "bipartisan" time regarding the economy. Instead of getting all Negative Nancy, shouldn't we all be praising the way our elected leaders bow down and kiss the ass of the unelected and unaccountable Federal Reserve Chairman and Globalist Banksters, praising every decision they make as the 100% correct course of action (and blaming everyone else, ESPECIALLY the American people's "greed and ignorance" for the crisis, such as the market's reaction to artificially low interest rates) and calling that behavior "bipartisan economic stimulus"?

I am also wondering why people wouldn't resort to the Democratic "Loser Anthem"? Their bellies are full and they have hot water coming from the tap, why wouldn't they resolve their dissonance by pretending that in some idealized future their leaders will behave exactly as expected, and just go with it? Whatever it takes for the true believers to stomach reality and go on with their lives feeling like they aren't duped and betrayed time and time again. Even the peasants in Stalin's Russia wrote love letters to the man who was sending them to the Gulag, pleading for the "bad guys" to stop sending the peasants' friends and family to their death.

It is like putting something off until tomorrow and then hoping tomorrow never comes, or shitting in one hand and wishing in the other and seeing which one fills up faster.