The New Face of Mental Illness

What mental illness looks like. Apparently, Afghanistan had no association with Osama. And I'm certain he would have supported BusHitler if he had invaded Pakistan. Uh-huh.

Did I mention this person is a nationally syndicated cartoonist for his day job? Now you know...

Oh, and did I mention that European unemployment averaged about a point higher than NYC? Never fear though -- they are our betters. Whatever you do, don't confuse your feelings by considering facts.

Is it over, over there?

The Long and Short of Mandatory

Mandatory reading. And if you can't spare the time you must at least read the mandatory review.

Therefore it is necessary, but not enough, to win another victory against oppressors in other countries; it also past the time for the West to triumph against the dark recesses of its own soul.

Mr. Warren

reviews Mr. Garton Ash:

Nor is the anti-Americanism in Europe some natural expression of the continent's war-bloodied historical experience. Some of it can be explained by envy -- the passing over the Atlantic of that sense of importance that Europe once enjoyed, in its Imperial heyday. But power politics are more calculating and cynical than that. The whole project of building a united Europe depends on replacing the old intra-European national antipathies with a new common antipathy. The public demonization of America thus serves the interests of Europe's new bureaucratic order, as George Jonas and others have argued.

Read it all, for it is good...