What I personally can't understand is why the American people aren't rising up to throw those tiny, greedy little men out of the halls of their capitol.

The only television I get in English here is the Armed Forces Network, so I don't watch televised news, much. What I do see, when it's not cunningly crafted infotainment-distractions from the Real Game, is so at odds with what I perceive to be the realities of the situation in the world today that it makes my head ring like a fucking bell...

Terrifying. Each swing of the pendulum further out from any (probably imaginary) calm and placid centre makes later transgressions all the more acceptable, and our proud civilization starts more and more to resemble the WWF on a good day, and a Heironymous Bosch nightmare on a bad one.