Even by our own estimates the situation in Iraq is not good and shows no real signs of getting better.

The situation in Afghanistan is not much better, especially if you are the President there.

The news that wages are rising faster than prices must have been written by the same guys who originally told us that terrorism in the world had decreased.

And our choices in November are, as Butler Shaffer has already said, one Yale graduate, pro-war, pro-Patriot Act, pro-expansive state member of "Skull-and-Bones" and another Yale graduate, pro-war, pro-Patriot Act, pro-expansive state member of "Skull-and-Bones."

As Mencken has already said

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.