By the way...

Juan Cole is brilliant today. Go read: Informed Comment, A Nation of Masochists.

And in the wake of the greatest and most sustained act of systematic plunder since the Mongol hordes appropriated to themselves the riches of everyplace in Asia from Beijing to Isfahan, the reaction of the supine and slave-like American voting public is to scratch their heads and have a hard time deciding if they would like more of the same.

I know I won't be voting republican in November, but I'm still not happy with Obama.