Don't let the God bit put you off. It was only meant rhetorically, though it is also true. The theme for today seems to be the lack of seriousness about in the run up to the coming elections.
I don't disagree, just not in the mood to pontificate too much on subject. It would be nice to peg the not unprecedented phenomenon on one group - the media, the citizenry, the politicians. But as they all seem mostly on the same page, one is left to assume it must be the American way.
I'm not feeling like tilting at any windmills today.
Jules Crittenden does it here.
Welcome to the spectacular surprises of October 2006. A tour de force in the political theater of the absurd. Let’s review:
North Korea tests a nuke. It should be shocking and surprising. But North Korea’s nuclear posturing is old news, and petulant displays as Kim Jong Il’s struggling regime clamors for attention only underscore his limitations. Missiles that crash after liftoff and clumsy World War II A-bomb technology.
Who is James Vicini? Well, he works for Reuters, the storied news agency. By "storied," I don't mean in the Hans Christian Andersen sense, though these days it's hard to tell. But they have an illustrious history and they're globally respected and whatnot. And last week newshound Vicini got assigned quite an interesting story:
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A California-born convert to Islam, accused of making a series of al-Qaida propaganda videos, became on Wednesday the first American charged with treason since the World War II era, U.S. Justice Department officials said.
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