Administrative

Hanging It Up

I’ve been running this blog for over five years now, and I’m getting tired. Moreover, I realize that Brian Swiderski and others are right–I’ve been letting the Bushies pull the wool over my eyes for too long. There is no difference between the fascist theocrats in the White House, and those overseas, and the ones in the White House are in fact much scarier, because they have so much more military power, and the actual will to use it, unlike the bluster of the Iranians, who are merely, after all, feeling justifiably threatened by the presence of the torturing American troops on both their eastern and western borders.

For five long years I’ve turned a blind eye to the incompetence of this administration, the worst one in the history of the Republic, unlikely to be equaled in the future, as I’m confident that historians will judge. Whether out of a naive hope for world domination by the forces of Christian righteousness, or just a latent lust to kill brown people by the millions, like all the other neocons, I’ve stood by this administration, and misled my readers for too long. I can’t undo all the damage that my fascist propaganda has done for the past half decade, but I can at least stop perpetuating it.

This is my last blog post.

War Commentary

Dog Bites Man

The Berlin bureau Chief of Der Spiegel, on the ability of Germans to hold all sorts of strange beliefs, including anti-Americanism:

For us Germans, the Americans are either too fat or too obsessed with exercise, too prudish or too pornographic, too religious or too nihilistic. In terms of history and foreign policy, the Americans have either been too isolationist or too imperialistic. They simply go ahead and invade foreign countries (something we Germans, of course, would never do) and then abandon them, the way they did in Vietnam and will soon do in Iraq.

Worst of all, the Americans won the war in 1945. (Well, with German help, of course — from Einstein and his ilk.) There are some Germans who will never forgive the Americans for VE Day, when they defeated Hitler. After all, Nazism was just an accident, whereas Americans are inherently evil. Just look at President Bush, the man who, as some of SPIEGEL ONLINE’s readers steadfastly believe, “is worse than Hitler.” Now that gives us a chance to kill two birds with one stone. If Bush is the new Hitler, then we Germans have finally unloaded the F

Biting Commentary about Infinity…and Beyond!