That Was a Real Good Thing You Done, George.

from HuffPo, this is quite good.

At first when I heard that the Republicans were finally standing up to Bush, I was thrilled. That was before Tony, the irritable handyman, a guy who I hired to build me some bookshelves, detailed for me a different way to look at it.

But first let me backtrack for a second. Having come to political consciousness during the Nixon/Johnson/Ford debacle, I have never really gotten over how the things I initially didn't believe about the secret workings of the U.S. government all turned out to be true.

Come on; Enemies lists? Wiretapping the phones of protesters? CIA assassins? Yeah, right.

Once I made that leap, I have never been able to completely discount bizarre theories. And I worked in talk radio for a while so I have heard some very creative ones. Still, when people send me little movies to download about how the Bush administration was behind 9/11, while the sensible part of me files this with the rantings of the troglodytes who think we staged the moon landing, a more paranoid part of me puts the details on hold for reviewing at a later date. A wry little voice asks me why we had all those red and orange alerts right around the time of the election, and not since?

The rest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/merrill-markoe/that-was-a-real-good-thin_b_17043.html?view=print

and the only possible reply as far as I'm concerned is "screw that."

Was it by any chance based on a story I once read by Harlan Ellison? If so, as I recall, it ends with Anthony turning himself into a spider and being crushed under the shoe of a little girl he is trying to terrorize.

Got your heaviest shoes on, my fellow Americans?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Good_Life/

and unfortunately, at the end, it just continues with the kid in charge of everything, cowing everyone around him.

go do not collect $200. OR better yet take the damn black pill and put us out of your misery.

The sad thing is, even if he ever admits he's wrong and sorry (most unlikely event ever), we're still going to be chin deep in "Oobleck" for a very long time.