He’s getting as horrified as the rest of us. What a gruesome day yesterday – all the worst because we have become numb to the carnage. The hope, of course is that the sheer insanity of these monsters – who are vying to turn Iraq into an even worse dictatorship than Saddam’s – will become apparent to ordinary Iraqis. Unless the pathologies of contemporary Islam in the Middle East have already done too much damage. That, I guess, is what we shall soon find out.
WONKETTE DOES WOLFIE: Almost as much fun as when she does Tina.
VOTING RIGHTS IN DC: Thanks for your emails about the colony in the American capital. Here’s a challenge: can anyone provide me with an actual argument for the fact that the inhabitants of the capital city have no fundamental right to govern themselves (without some strangers from other states’ vetoing or amending their decisions)? Is there even the faintest justification for residents of DC paying federal taxes when they have no senators and only one Potemkin representative in the House? Wyoming has fewer inhabitants and two senators. How does this make any sense? I know the historical reasons for this carbuncle on American democracy. I also know the self-interested reasons for preventing representation (Republicans don’t want any more Democrats in the Senate). But when you see people from elsewhere simply using DC as an experiment on a “test-vote”, the sheer contempt these people have for democracy and for the residents of their own little colony is overpowering. So I repeat: can anyone defend this? Seriously? I’ll publish the best ones.
The Dish 