Yo, Bush!

It's been a pretty grim week all round, as the Middle East slides further towards the all-out chaos we always said it would. I don't know about you, but every time George W. Bush says that Syria and Iran should not get involved in the Lebanon-Israel conflict, it sounds to me more like he's daring them to bring it on. Not a good thing.

What a week it's been for Bush - first the open mic jive talking with Tony Blair, then the whole getting to second base with Angela Merkel thing. I'm starting to wonder - is his regular puppetmaster simply on holidays? Is it Cheyney? Is it Karl Rove? It all reminds me of the story I once heard that towards the end of his presidency, Ronald Reagan's minders would delicately steer him towards a helicopter whenever his comments started to get a little weird so that his voice would be drowned out by the sound of the blades.

Such people leading the free world? Sometimes, ya just gotta have a sardonic, subversive laugh.