Cobb says:

“Al Gore, that fundamentally quirky guy, has given the finger to Joe Lieberman. Good.

Let the Democrats be populist and leave Lieberman in the dirt. He needs to switch parties and quit kidding himself anyway. Liberals need to be radically populist and if Dean is the best they can do, fine. Even Hillary Clinton, whom I do not love to hate, is sounding hawkish, hardheaded and sensible these days. What’s up with that?

Message to Democrats. There is no triangulation left to do. It has been done. Get your cudgels, torches and pitchforks and bring your radical stuff to the streets. That’s what you do best, so get to it. What’s wrong with you people anyway? Where are your hemp handbags and Act Up antics? Where are your plastic inflatable rats and black balaclavas? Where are your effigies and misspelled picket signs? Where are your balls?

You’re not going to let a wimp like GWBush beat you again are you? Here’s a little secret. The first party to nominate a candidate with a beard will have my vote for life.”

(book, that is): “It’s Iraq. The Sunnis, Shias and Kurds are at each other’s throats, only cooperating long enough to attack the foreign army that is occupying their country. The army is tasked with nation-building, and is running into serious difficulty. The man in charge is… no, not America’s Paul Bremer, but General Sir Aylmer Haldane. The year is 1920.

Published in 1922, Haldane’s book, Insurrection in Mesopotamia 1920, long ago vanished into the dusty fastnesses of antiquarian booksellers. But not any more. We hear that Sir Aylmer is required reading in Washington these days. Evidently, the Pentagon and state department are snapping up all available copies – the price on the web has hit $250 and is rising. Why?” —Guardian.UK

Renowned, outspoken contrarian psychiatrist E. Fuller Torey says the report of President Bush’s Commission on Mental Health was a near-total waste and its nineteen recommendations “a hodgepodge of boilerplate and evasion.” —City Journal