Even though I earlier found myself subjected to a featurette about Paris Hilton’s Christmas on one of the tv gossip shows, which almost made me give up on the whole thing...
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The secret word is Wassail

THE RED AND THE BLUE
With the voyeurism that is such a part of the internet, I’m just a stone fool for the Next Blog button. Today I came across a very nice man who was against the war and posted pictures of his cats in the snow, and had been looking at some Red chat rooms where he discovered the following post from a character called Joe M. Richardson, who may be the real voice of middle America, in the subject of the soldier who had complained to Rumsfeld that his Humvee was a bunch of defenseless junk : "The duped soldier should be put at the very front of the action, no armor. The cooperating sergeant's career should be over and maybe become MIA. Pitts and all his cronies should be executed as traitors. We are fighting a war, the debate is over, you’re either for us or against us, there is no middle ground. I say start executing the leftists in our country, soon."
Is it just that’s it’s Christmas, or do I detect a decidedly biblical echo in Joe’s desire to put the unfortunate grunt in the front line. Wasn’t this what King David did to the husband of one of his royal fuck-bunnies? I also wonder why Joe wants us killed soon rather than right now. Nothing more lame than a procrastinating Nazi. Or maybe there’s something he wants to watch on the History Channel.

CRYPTIQUE – Hardly bright and certainly not calm.