THE best explanation of last week's weirdness in the US House of Representatives (which was finally resolved, after a fashion, late on July 29th), is provided by the animators at Taiwanese television. I particularly liked the Tea Partier pulling a turd out of his diaper and hurling it at John Boehner's head, and the Tea Partiers dancing in ecstasy as Congress burns down. It's now the turn of Dingy Harry Reid to get the Taiwanese treatment.