Caution! Off-topic Rant Ahead

As good citizens I trust you'll all be watching or listening to our President tonight. I won't. My blood pressure won't take it. It won't take being witness to yet another confirmation of his and his neocon gang's criminal stupidity; a stupidity fueled and informed by a lunatic ideology and blind faith that somehow God's on their side. That shipping to Iraq a pathetically inadequate additional 21000 troops hasn't a prayer of a chance of accomplishing what needs to be accomplished, and will in fact accomplish nothing other than provide more meat for the grinder, seems not to have occurred to them. After all, they need to do something — anything — because they need a way out of having to admit before the next election the full extent of the appalling catastrophe they created by their lunatic ideological thinking and gross criminal ineptitude, and this plan is the best plan they could come up with that won't cause them more political damage than would the admission of their catastrophic failure and defeat, or the implementation of a plan that would really work, unthinkably bloody and ugly as that would be. That this plan, even as a pathetic and panic-induced stopgap measure, is lame — lethally lame — seems not to have given them pause.

No, I won't be watching or listening to our President tonight. I'll be listening to some Bach keyboard music instead.