Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

100 million people who could afford food for their families six months ago now can't...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7360485.stm

Robert Mugabe is still an asshole...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7360438.stm

And Lebanon is on the verge of catastrope. Again...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/22/lebanon.syria

Of course none of that is really important in selecting a candidate for President. Does anybody else remember the "new seriousness" that supposedly gripped American politics after 9/11? The idea that we had to pay more attention to the rest of the world and spend less time on meaningless trivia? What the fuck ever happened to that?