Simper Fi

Look at their faces. Some look like offspring of the Pillsbury Dough Boy and a pedophile priest. The rest look like a cross between a praying mantis and a rabid weasel.

These are our leaders. They lie, and equivocate, and somehow manage to ignore the wishes of the people.

Most of us wanted to stay away from the awful problems of a brain-dead women. None of our business.

Most of us believe that religion should stay out of government, and vice versa. We think our tax money should not go to groups antagonistic to faiths other than their own.

Most Americans believe that no minority should be persecuted or penalized for its ethnic background, sexual orientation or religious affiliation.

They may not approve of abortion or same-sex marriage or the right to death, but they know these things are private issues, not public ones.

Not our leaders. With simpering smiles they tell us what the ends are, and that their secret means need not be justified.

Were physiognomy still accredited, these persona-snatching aliens would be oficially labeled as cunning and mean. If only CNN had a consulting physiognomist in their stable of talking heads.