We truly are not a serious country:

Too much Leonard Nimoy […..] But his intellectuality has contributed to a growing critique that decisions are detached from rock-bottom principles. Both Maureen Dowd in The New York Times and Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post have likened him to Star Trek’s Mr. Spock. The Spock imagery has been especially strong during the extended review Obama has undertaken of Afghanistan policy. He’ll announce the results on Tuesday. The speech’s success will be judged not only on the logic of the presentation but on whether Obama communicates in a more visceral way what progress looks like and why it is worth achieving. No soldier wants to take a bullet in the name of nuance.

Yes, serious people are engaging in serious discussions about how bad it is for Obama to be intelligent, circumspect and deliberative. … After eight disastrous years that should have proved to anyone with a pulse who wasn’t on a respirator how galactically retarded it is to elect a dim-witted, ivy-league C-student frat guy to run the country.

Fucking hell… Stuff like this, along with reading Idiot America, is pretty depressing to take in.

John Cole perks me up, as always, with his insight: