Yeah, We the People don’t care. It’s a pet theme of mine which I’ve often written about and will soon again thanks to an extraordinary book I just came across.

Manny too is the gift that keeps on giving. I’ll continue with him until the end of the baseball season. I’ll see if I can come up with a comparable NFL player. Doubtful though because if a football player slacks off now and then he risks being blindsided and getting injured.

I have to agree with Wolf. What i find the most disturbing/disheartening is how little We the People seem to care. Moreover, if we are the beacon of democracy that we like to think of ourselves as, then we (even those who disagree with the administration) are very much to blame for America’s actions.

The CIA had warned him that Putin “was a trained KGB agent … [who] wants you to think he’s your friend.” (from the Suskind review at Politico) This is an important point on two levels. One, it should have gone without saying. But two, our rogue’s gallery of bumbling, ideological amateurs never bothered to asses the fact that they were/are dealing with a professional. We’ll see how events play out over S. Ossetia, but things are looking (at the moment) like a lopsided chess match. I, for one, do not doubt that Putin has done everything in his power to give the United States an experience similar to the end of the Soviet Union. To my mind, Georgia is a late game gambit. The playing out is interesting, if terribly frightening…

Do you put the Manny section in just to rile me up? If so, it works admirably. The knee story is just too much…they should have tried giving him some candy and a joke; it works with seven year olds.

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