The scheduled post on writing query letters has been pre-empted by this political diatribe borne of frustration and depression:
With Congress’ confirmation today that the president has the right to torture prisoners and detain them indefinitely without filing charges against them, the United States of America has officially placed itself squarely into the same moral category as al qaeda. Kidnapping is now our national foreign policy.
We’ll likely capture or kill Osama in the next few weeks; the Republicans need an “October Surprise” to maintain their stranglehold on power in Washington – but it no longer matters. He’s already won.
There’s a statue in New York we won’t be needing anymore. Perhaps we should sell it for scrap to help pay down our war debt. Halliburton will probably be happy to accept the demolition contract.