Check out the cover of the current issue of The Nation.

[Via Jim Oberg]

I like it! Politicians should never be allowed to get too comfortable or allowed to think they can slide on past successes.

It's not odious moral equivalence, it's pointing out that the PR operation in Baghdad is equivalent to the administration's point of view in terms of Constitutional rights, or don't you read the newspaper accounts of Congress and Ashcroft?

Success! We've acheived space travel for the masses! And look, Gary (see below), has already made it! How's the view from out there, space cadet? Looks to me like you're a couple of kph short of a full orbital vector. Hope you don't crash too hard when reality reaches up and slaps you across the backside.

It means that Leftists have given up trying to pursuade the undecided of the justness of their cause. All that remains for them is to make sure their reflexive sympathizers and useful idiots don't smarten up and realize how much they are being lied to and being used.

This is intended to be an image only someone already commited to the cause can love, and based on reactions to it here and elsewhere, it's quite a success. For the rest of us, it just confirms everything we've come to loathe about Leftists and their useful idiots.

Foul and twisted. Typically derivative and unoriginal (Support our troops / We'll support our troops when they shoot their officers, etc.). Leftist.