Now it turns out that the Prez and his advisor, Condi Rice, didn’t quite read through the entire Intelligence Report last year which contained a number of reservations about WMD’s, and all of that good stuff.

Maybe the Prez’s educational program should be expanded to “No President or Advisors Left Behind,” to help increase his reading speed and comprehension.

To his sporadic attendance at Yale has now been added his apparent absence in the Alabama National Guard. Has anybody checked on whether he attended any classes at Harvard while obtaining an MBA? Even GeoII/43, whose whole career has been an exercise in family influence and coat tail riding, ought to understand that a participant who doesn’t show up for the race, cannot, by definition, be “left behind.”

Over the years, several friends have chided me for seemingly nasty to flippant remarks about our Imperial leaders. But, historically, a number of writers in several civilizations, especially an old English teacher of mine, have pointed out that the best way to deal with the arrogance and pomposity of Power, which is an essential characteristic of Empire, is Satire.

The Media in America is so busy flattering the Prez that it has seldom had time to check on whether our Leader has any clothes on, or not. But, our Imp is a stylish guy, with a outfit for every occasion! Maybe he has an old flight suit from his Alabama days, just loaded with old cleaner’s labels that will prove conclusively he literally wore out the seat of his pants flying around that state.

The Romans used “bread and circuses” to keep the population appeased, and once when there was only enough welfare money for one of the two, one of the Emperors instinctively chose another circus.

For many years I used to think sports -- even with rape these days thrown in -- and TV were our circuses, but clearly our politicians, and, especially, Washington, DC, within the Beltway, now provide us with an ongoing circus of circuses.

We have, however, even less regard for human life than did the Ancient Romans in their bestial circuses. The Imp has talked a bit about our losses in Iraq, but apart from a human rights groups or two, Americans don’t even mention the over 10,000 Iraqi civilians thus far killed in our “Liberation” of their nation.