Wow! Are the Dems busy denying Michael Moore! They loved him when his films were playing to sell out crowds around the world, but now that Bush has beaten their man, it's deny, deny, deny: "and immediately the cock crew."

Sorry, folks, Mr. Moore got a lot of it right, and he supports the second amendment. He also looks like a good many of us (so how can we respect him?). But what do I know? I'm dumb enough to believe that education might actually have a slim chance to improve our lives, not just lead to more consumerism.

The new metaphors are interesting: Instead of talking about the voter as being on the floor at the GM plant or on the tractor in the Nebraska corn field, now the talk is of "in Applebee's as opposed to the Capitol Diner." Americans are defined as consumers rather than producers. People in this country, apparently, live completely off of others. It seems my dad was right about me after all.