Here’s to the Fools

On this most hallowed of days, let us come together in solemn recognition of its namesake: the members of the 111th Congress.

PERP WALK. Source: AP

Rave on, supercilious buffoons. You are not craven, vacuous, or delusional. You have not failed as leaders or as human beings. You are significant, essential, inestimable. You frolic with grave import under a neoclassical circus dome in the Land That Sense Forgot.

Your Lilliputian brains are bursting with criminal acumen and your grandiloquence . . . → Read More: Here’s to the Fools

Il and Bill

ALMOST LIFELIKE. Source: AP

The wax dummies of the smiling dictator and the pasty adulterer above are a monument to photo-op diplomacy. They commemorate the comforting notion that, in this world of galloping insanity, two pathological liars can still come together, unite in the forbidden tango of the soulless bureaucrat, exchange meaningless reassurances and declare mutually exclusive victories.

Not that that’s what happened here.

This was not an example of statecraft but rather a . . . → Read More: Il and Bill