The looming scandal over Bush's National Guard service during what he has referred to as his "nomadic years" -- a search for a career and purpose as he drifted from opportunity to opportunity, job to job, eight ball to eightball, gram to gram, snort to snort -- resulted in the release of documents that do nothing to explain the gaps in his service...not so much as an hour per American servicemember killed in his "liberation" of Iraq. -- Janauary 15, 2004

David Grossman says of Ariel Sharon's Wall: "It is yet another precipitate action aimed at giving the Israeli public a temporary illusion of security; its main effect will be to supply Israelis with a counterfeit replacement for a peace process." Given how well Walls have worked in the past, Ariel Sharon may ultimately be for peace what Saddam Hussein was for democracy. The bigger question, as always, is who pays? -- January 2004

When delusions of grandeur and martyrdom of a somewhat limited IQ are reinforced, particularly if said IQ is a Bible-thumping President, we experience what is known as a "Military Industrial God Complex". Its confused manifestation outlaws procedures like abortion regardless of the health of the mother, or bans life-saving stem cell research, while plugging severely deformed persons into life-support apparatus against their express wishes, or carpet bombing women and children. It's not very pretty. -- December 2003

"When the heat got on, you dug yourself a hole and you crawled in it." Mr. Bush said of deposed dictator, Saddam Hussein, upon his capture. Of course the hole through which White House spews shit, and the deeper hole in which the treasonous leakers languish remains as gaping as the hole in which Dick Cheney's energy task force is hiding. -- December 16, 2003