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Nits to pick, and apologism

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If any of you haven't seen "In the Loop" I can't recommend it enough. It's perhaps the most biting political comedy made since "Dr. Strangelove."
There's one character who resembles Donald Rumsfeld in demeanor and relationship to the truth who drops the pithy one-liner "We don't need any more facts. In the land of truth, my friend, the man with one fact is the king."

Callout diaries are forbidden, so there will be no linking, but there's been a rather shameful front-page diary tonight excoriating us for buying into propaganda, and running of into the weeds. Sorry to say, it goes with the territory.


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