Kill us.

Election season must be upon us. The speechwriters of the Presidential Party have cooked up a series of essentially meaningless historical non sequiturs, whose historicity and meaninglessness are irrelevant since Voterus Americanus can't remember to put out the trash a day later on account of Labor Day, let alone recall the specific circumstances and acts that accounted for, say, the appeasement of Adolph Hitler and the German Third Reich in 1938. The so-called left, meanwhile, has learned that a corporate media giant will air a corporate "docudrama" based loosely on a whitewash commission report that such leftians embrace simply because there are a few moments in the hearings transcripts in which certain Administration officials seem neither particularly attentive nor especially not-unspeakably-dumb. As if you needed a blue-ribbon panel for all that.

Although nothing would be better for the American left than the total destruction of the Democratic Party, itself a kind of corporatized docudramatic reality show full of long-in-the-tooth television pseudocelebrities gumming the porridge of political rhetoric straight to a new majority in the lower house of congress--thence onward to total blame for everything currently wrong with this country, which is more or less everything--most of the left-leaning blogosphere seems principally concerned with refuting the historical truth of a network television special and yapping, once again, that Osama bin Laden, vivant, proves that the President is a dangerous moron. And thus proven, what next?

Well, they haven't the foggiest. Gridlock? I think that even with a Democratic majority in one or both houses of Congress, we shall be at war with Iran before the decade, if not the year, is out. The Democratic party has practically been begging for it for nigh unto four years now, ever since we invaded Iraq even though "Iran poses a far graver threat."

Well, at least we found a new oil field in the Gulf, which, once it comes on line in six or so years, if it comes on line in six or so years, will provide in its entire lifetime less oil than is consumed in the United States in a single year--and that's assuming 100% recoverability!

Kurt Vonnegut is right about us.