This stuff has already been done. It's law. People sat on their hands and watched it go through. Things get eroded away. Apathy rules. John Yoo is just Mr. Anyman -- he's not the problem. He's just a suit.

"The Banality of Evil is a phrase coined in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in her work Eichmann in Jerusalem. It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal."

Simply put, "By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."

Lucky me. Totallyblase had to leave the building, but he's not been forgotten. I don't know much about wine, cigars or blondes, but like Guinness (the real-deal, not the shite they serve in Blarney bars outside of Ireland), I don't travel well.

"Totallyblase's got you beat with perversions of my "name". He called me loworbitboy. That's funnier). Funnier? Since when do wingnuts have a sense of humour?? People tell me Seinfeld was funny. Jon Stewart? Alvin & The Chiprats? 40 years on, and Monty Python is still funny? I don't get it.

And of course, having left the real world and entering the homeland / fatherland / bubbleland, 'they' disappeared my luggage. And stuck me on the '4-S' list . . . that's what you get for being a swarthy, hook nosed, scimitar-waving, Koran-quoting dissident -- not.

At least they left me off the "sorry-Mr.-Blase-but-you-aren't-flying-today" list.

And as I say, "Yet, it moves . . . "

Nine / Eleven (patent-pending) lives. On & on & on & on. (When did Rudy leave this particular building? Where is he when you really need him -- he invoked that particular phrase more often than a drunken Aussie uses the "F" word -- noun, adjective, verb and conversation starter). Sheesh, but that bloody shirt has been waved, wrung out, hung-up, and trampled on enuff already. And the-current-powers-that-be / the-powers-that-would-be / the-powers-that-will-be, et al, will use that schtick (Mukasey being the current guy behind the curtain) forever and a day.

Move on, America.

Colbert, Stewart, et al were funny, but that one-trick pony is getting realy, really, really tired. Letterman, Leno, Southpark?? Family Guy? The Simpsons? Seinfeld? They weren't especially funny even back in the 20th century. That tired old drumroll / highhat schtick. Yuk, yuk. Criminey.

Let's face it . . . there are taboos. You can try and rip a news one for the obvious targets, just don't even think about going for the underbelly.

Burl "Ronnie's Butt Boy" Ives sang, "Watch the donut, not the hole". In other words, seek the tangible. Forget about the intangible and the BullyBoy In Blue munching on it. Thence, the sorry state America is in -- oops, my bad, the sorry state the center of the known universe is in -- it is the fault of the bought & paid for guys -- the Quislings, the brown-nosers, the sucker-uppers, hell, the apple polishers. It's the media that sucks, not Americans in general. Blame it all on the MSM.

Post-Menstrual opines: "It's not just about what regular folk care about. It's about what they care to watch and talk about. American media is still primarily consumerist and like or not, celebrity or political gossip and John Edwards haircut gets more attention than serious leftwing types fretting about the things Glenn frets about everyday. It's the lowest common demoninator aspect of commercial media and it's nothing new. To see in this a sinister Republican-enabling conspiracy, as Glenn does, you have to be, frankly, a bit desperate."

Yikes!! The MSM still hasn't caught on, despite the fact that 75% of a population that discounts evolution, believes in UFOs, call themselves Christians and thinks that "Dancing With Has-beens" is a great way to spend your evening -- holy Freddie Flinstones. Good gawd -- it's always always always someone else's fault, innit??

Infantileman preens: "As for the Ridenhour Prize, past recipients include Jimmy Carter, Sy Hersh, Gloria Steinem and Joe Wilson, among other luminaries, right? "

This is so. It's good to see good people awarded for good work. Sorry, but your sneers just don't hold water. Hey, and Jimmy holds a Nobel, too. Though, so does that sack of shite Henry Kissenger. And Bill 'Gin Blossom' O'Reilly has a, what, Peabody???