The refusal by "Democrats" in Congress to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney represents a monumental political and public diplomacy failure, trumping even their inability to offer more than half-assed opposition to the continuing occupation of Iraq. Michelle Obama recently said that "the world will look at America differently" if her husband is elected president; maybe so, for a few minutes, but then the world will tire of gazing upon Obama's chocolately goodness and start looking again at our behavior. If we want to change the perception of this country then we need to reject the actions that shaped the perception and at least make an attempt to hold the perpetrators accountable, a duty that Obama and most of the other candidates, like their lily-livered colleagues among the Congressional leadership, regularly shirk.

If Bush isn't stupid, he'll serve as a poster boy until someone stupider can be found. The man leaves an unbroken trail of verbal stupidity in his wake wherever he goes, and not a week has gone by during his presidency when he hasn't provided at least a couple of stupid remarks, usually when he goes off the text of what's been given him to read.

I don't even know what Kohl's is. I'm guessing some sort of mass-crap superstore, like Best Buy or Target or T.J. Maxx or a weird amalgam of all of those and it doesn't really matter because last Friday they opened at 4 a.m. for the mad rush of Black Friday shoppers, because if there's one thing you want to do when your body is groggy and sleep tugs at your heart and your dreams have turned vacant and sad, it's grope cheap waffle makers before sunrise.