Everything has a spoonful of truth, papjon_s1. The issue is, how can we as Americans get from spoonfuls to bowlfuls and vatfuls instead?

It is not a simple choice between the George Bush America and the Sean Penn America. Don't let yourself get dumbed-down like that. It's a choice that needs to be made every day, in a hundred little decisions. It's about how smart we want to be as a nation.

The true mark of dumba--ery is that everything is reduced to a choice between A and B, and all such decisions are final and irrevocable. This is the worst kind of lie.

Don't ask yourself whether to go with GBA or SPA and then pick GBA because their people sound more folksy and likeable than the SPA ones. Instead ask yourself "what would Jesus really do?" Or "what would Ghandi really do?" Or "what would Lincoln really do?"

If you come up with "start a war with Iran" or "kill every ragh--d in the Middle East" or "suppress dissent at home" then you're obviously uninformed about history and no fan of humanitarians. In that case you should probably seek professional help - you may be psychotic.

Anne gains her left-wing notoriety because she's a pundit of mindless GBA-ism, which would ultimately destroy this country. Do you think GWB or any of his clones have the smarts to stop global warming? Hell, they can't even punish 400 raga--ed renegades without falling all over themselves.

Republicans lost the war. Remember to punish them well in November, 2008.

- MW