A return to the dreamtime

The long national nightmare of peace and prosperity might return, the Republicans warn.

Exactly where will we be if we allow the smart crooks instead of the stupid ones to run things?

I'm sure people at the Pentagon stay awake at night worrying about this very thing. When they're not cooking up plans to use autonomous armed robots to hunt people down of course. Sweet dreams, those generals have.



But they aren't alone. Robert Bork once said the only way to return this country to its Right Thinking Real Amerikan roots would be to drag it through another Great Depression.



Well, their boy had his chance.

But the predators who run own things woke up to find they stood in danger of wiping out the abilities of their prey to sustain them. [thanks, Sarah]

This is the principal explanation for why the employees of Goldman-$acks Amerika donated more to Obama than to McCain.

These predators are smart enough to not want to kill the goose that lays their golden eggs.