I'm tired of hearing about how stingy the US is. No one made this complaint during the Clinton years and Bush has raised foreign aid spending since then. Once again, what was normal under a Democrat becomes an outrage under Bush.

The Democrats staged their electoral protest. Bush was elected anyway. During the last two months I heard a lot about how Bush stole the election by allocating voting machines but no one has explained how he got the Democrats on the election boards to go along with this.

Here's two takes on Lord of the Rings. The first one is Rings as it might be seen by Noam Chompsky. The second was written by a real follower of Chompsky. In this one, the corrupting ring is global trade and the fellowship of the rings is the courageous band of terrorists who crashed into the World Trade Center. Sometimes the loony left is so far out there that you cannot parody them.

For good measure, here is an analysis of the book debating its red state/blue state status.